back door

Example Sentences

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"There's still a lot of smoke in the street - it was quite scary - I was in two minds to leave by my back door."

From BBC • May 31, 2026

If the administration focuses on uranium while ignoring the plutonium back door, our diplomatic strategy is dangerously incomplete.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Gil hustled to the back of the store, opened the back door to the encampment, and called out to the entire population.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

After a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to compel Apple to build a universal back door into the iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Cocoa bolts out, and I groggily go after her down the hall, down the stairs, to the kitchen, and out the back door.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas