How to Use back room in a Sentence

back room

noun
  • Last time El Rio hosted this work in progress, the bar’s back room was packed.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Bieker emerged from a back room and fired shots, wounding three of the robbers, but he was fatally shot.
    Tony Rizzo and Max Londberg, kansascity, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But the biggest change to the running back room may be from a player who has already spent three years inside of it.
    Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Then, another man emerged from a back room of the residence and pulled out a gun on the man who had just arrived.
    Mike Isaacs, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • To find this speakeasy, look for the plain door in the back room of the Pastry War, a boisterous mezcal bar that’s worth its own visit.
    Christina Chaey, Bon Appetit, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The largest media scrum of the campaign greeted them, moving silently and laboriously through the front and back rooms of the complex.
    David Weigel, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
  • On March 6, authorities said the same man entered the Domino’s again and forced employees to lie down in the back room.
    Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The back rooms are filled with TVs showing games, and press row is filled with laptops or iPads showing other games while the one in front of you plays out.
    Samuel Mellinger, kansascity, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Gore provides steady veteran leadership to a decidedly young running backs room.
    Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Police were called to the home on Throop just after noon and a woman told officers her husband was in a back room of the home with a large knife, police said in a news release.
    Elvia Malagon, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Open since 1954, the restaurant has evolved to include Thai and Japanese food, with a big back room full of huge hibachi grills.
    Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Rosquette allegedly asked the hitman to first rob and kill a Staten Island gas station operator who kept a safe in a back room.
    Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Morton, an Afghanistan War veteran, died in the back room of the house while officers outside pleaded for the gunman to let rescuers in to try to save him.
    Joe Robertson, Max Londberg, Glenn E. Rice and Ian Cummings, kansascity, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Gabrielle Rifkind operates in the shadows, in the quiet, dark, back rooms of international politics.
    Maria Streshinsky, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2024
  • But the fact remains that Silo Prime lives in the back room of a hotel, away from the street, away from the light, away from the life of its streetfront sister Nonna.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • By luck, the store had the dress in a box in a back room.
    Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • The back room among the files and the reports was his field.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 15 June 2019
  • The fight moves from a back room, to the front bar, the bathroom and even the kitchen.
    Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The clerk went into the back room to get the shoes about which the man asked.
    cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Abrahim Ajrouch, who owns Brown's, stood in the back room.
    Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2018
  • All the team and the back room applaud our input to the game.
    Danica Kirka, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • My parents were in the back room and heard a loud noise.
    Erika Butler, The Aegis, 12 May 2018
  • The air is stagnant in a small back room of the shelter.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2022
  • The two men came to an agreement in Coogan’s back room.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 25 July 2020
  • The bill, Moyle said, makes it so these types of sales aren’t done in a back room.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The group had met for years in the back room of a local restaurant.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2021
  • In the back room of a Jewish temple, the kids are running the show.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
  • There were so many rules: how to fold jeans, where to stand in the store, when to punch in and out in the back room.
    Jennifer De Leon, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2023
  • The concrete floors in the dishwasher area and the back room aren’t sealed.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • While the clerk was in the back room, the man left with the three pairs of shoes, which had a total value of $1,010.
    cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022

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