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• The wild card Phillies came through the back door with 87 wins in the NL East.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2022
• And through the back door were lines of trees similar to the ones out front.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• The family came through the back door and went straight to their seats.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The duo entered the lobby through the back door at about 10:45 p.m., the warrant says.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
• Robledo jumped a fence to get in through the back door.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, Ken Ritter and Morgan Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• Paramedics drove in through the back alley but their gurney wouldn’t fit through the back door.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• The petition states that Gonzalez broke in through the back door of the house.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• The ex escaped through the back door and the roommates climbed out the bathroom window and ran to a neighbor’s house.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 4 May 2022
• John Kelsch, the museum director at the time, says a man broke in through the back door and snatched the slippers.
  — NPR, 18 June 2024
• Ruth’s brother, Kyle, was there, too, staring like a moron through the back door.
  — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Lewis and McLaughlin have been known to sneak athletes into the building through the back door to avoid the public eye.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Jan. 2023
• Tobias crawled to the back of the bus to join the two other passengers who were trying to escape through the back door.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• But while the home was unoccupied, the woman broke in through the back door and moved in, furniture and all, Shelton said.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• The windows facing Holiday Park are shuttered and painted black, and the entrance is through the back door on a side street.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 24 June 2021
• The couture show involved a clever bait and switch: guests were funnelled through the back door of the Palais Garnier and, unbeknownst to them, onto the main opera-house stage.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Police officers who were at a distance behind a fence loudly told one of them to drop a gun, and the two men went back inside the house through the back door.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
• Clutching their bundles, the men entered through the back door of the building, taking the utility elevator up 32 floors to the roof.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Wired, 12 Sep. 2020
• In Denver, Byrne arrives for a recent rehearsal just before noon, wheeling through the back door of the factory space.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• Four days later, Gordon went into a Richardson store through the back door and aimed a gun at an employee, according to the news release.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Mar. 2024
• After attempting to kick in the front door, Plainfield Police Department officers were able to enter the house through the back door.
  — Brad Parks, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
• Minutes later, local police officers responded to the school and entered through the back door, which was still propped open.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
• Pham reportedly entered through the back door after the family forgot to lock it.
  — Sam Dorman, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2021
• As Pence spoke to donors who gave tens of thousands of dollars on an upstairs floor of the Four Seasons, the former president came in through the back door of the restaurant, drawing cheers from startled diners.
  — Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
• What could be more Eurocentric than to let music in only through the back door, the way musicians had to use the servants’ entrance to the European courts in the 18th century?
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• Both individuals fled the restaurant through the back door as an officer tried to make contact with them, according to Stahl.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2024
• The narrow design of the house made the most of cross-breezes flowing from the front entrance through the back door—essential during New Orleans summers before air-conditioning.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 19 June 2024
• After the van became disabled, with sparks flying from its rear wheels and smoke pouring from the engine, the suspect jumped out and ran into a residence in Whittier through the back door, video shows.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• The Crown persistently attacks ideas about contemporary celebrity through the back door of past tabloid actions.
  — Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
• Nayeri sold to dispensaries — illicitly, through the back door.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• The man became more aggressive toward Arredondo, witnesses said, and Arredondo directed his employees to leave through the back door and call police.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024