How to Use back room in a Sentence

back room

noun
  • Sure, Grindr and Scruff in a sense have replaced bars, back rooms and loos.
    John Norris, Billboard, 29 May 2018
  • The true kitchen is next door, another front-to-back room with a very large island.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2018
  • But there’s no tension in the running backs room, Johnson says.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2018
  • The fighters are herded into a back room to warm up in the shadows of two floodlights.
    John McCall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • No one enters the back room overlooking the garden and the woodpile.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Private parties in the back room may order food from select restaurants nearby.
    Kellie Hwang, azcentral, 12 June 2018
  • Bush, meanwhile, had been a running back and spent time in the running backs room before going to the wide receivers.
    Drew Davison, star-telegram, 29 May 2018
  • Come early to buy your meal and bring it to the back room before the meeting and entertainment begin.
    Houston Chronicle, 28 May 2018
  • Two male perpetrators entered a back room of a business, and one of them hit a victim in the face with a firearm and demanded cash.
    Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • To the left of the smoothie bar lay the door to Upcycle, situated equidistant to the back room barre and yoga studio.
    Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 29 May 2018
  • In the back room, three treatments of our fractured and volatile political conversation combine into something between an epiphany and a punch in the gut.
    New York Times, 20 June 2018
  • Last month, the state lab matched a cigarette butt collected from the floor of the back room to Lamont Jackson, 54, of Chicago, court records state.
    Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 29 May 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
  • All the team and the back room applaud our input to the game.
    Danica Kirka, The Seattle Times, 10 July 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
  • Weecha takes Heddie to the back room and a gunshot is heard.
    Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 14 May 2022
  • As those have grown, Foltz said, the back room has started to grow small.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Jordan had been in the back room with a small party and seen us.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 16 May 2020
  • The chairs are set up in a horseshoe in a narrow pink-walled back room.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • She is seen yelling and gesturing, trying to get closer to the Frontier employees headed for the back room.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024

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