back stairs

Example Sentences

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The family had “also sometimes hidden children in a kitchen cabinet. When soldiers came to arrest her sister and father, G escaped down the back stairs and bicycled out of the city to a convent school, where nuns took her in.”

From Washington Post

According to the known timeline of events gathered from police interviews, Mrs. Ramsey woke up on the morning of December 26 and found a two-and-a-half page handwritten ransom note on the interior back stairs of their home asking for $118,000.00 in exchange for their daughter.

From Salon

“They were in the process of exiting the building, and were in the stairwell of the building — back stairs, specifically — when the significant explosion occurred.”

From Washington Post

It is now etched in memory as the stairway where Officer Eugene Goodman, acting alone, diverted a mob away from a set of back stairs, allowing Vice President Mike Pence and senators to escape unharmed to a secure location before the intruders breached the Senate chamber.

From New York Times

Tenants of Ding How Center say they have witnessed drug use in the back stairs of the two-story mall and people congregating around the stairs at night.

From Seattle Times