toward the rear
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“Overflow,” an usher posted outside the church doors said as we approached, jerking his thumb toward the rear parking lot where the grammar school was located.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024
She arrived a minute before showtime, squeezed into a spot toward the rear of the onstage throng and sighed with relief.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2023
A full drum kit toward the rear of the stage overwhelmed the room with its boomy kick, its volume urging everything else around it upward into rock show territory.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023
The stage floor rises toward the rear, and everyone feels far away, adding to the dark, disturbingly ghoulish obscurity.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2021
They were working him back toward the rear.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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