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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Because the generator was outside, the carbon monoxide safety sensor was unable to measure the amount of gas flowing through the back door and building up inside, a flaw in the safety mechanism that the CPSC and consumer advocates have highlighted.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
• But through the back door of digital tech and autonomous driving, Big Tech keeps clawing to develop and control the critical mass of binary IP that will operate vehicles in the future – no matter where they’re designed and built.
  — Dale Buss, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024