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

Such software can give anyone—even hackers—a back door into your home network.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Near the back door, he picked up a large rock.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu