How to Use back room in a Sentence

back room

noun
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  • Lucky urged the women to take the children into the back room and hide.
    — Maria Carter, Country Living, 21 July 2017
  • My aunt grinned widely and snapped a photo of me being led to the back room.
    — Iman Hariri-Kia, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Her husband then came from a back room and began firing shots as the robbers fled.
    — Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 30 Oct. 2017
  • But in the back room of O’Neill’s, there’s not much appetite for nuance.
    — Amos Barshad, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The New Moms Group sits in a circle on a faux-fur rug in the homey, dingy back room.
    — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • The gunmen forced two employees into a back room where a money safe is kept, Beavers said.
    — Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And all of its incoming mail stops here, in a quiet back room of the capital’s only post office.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Rojas alerted an off-duty cop working security in a back room.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Craftsmen work over small metal forges in the back rooms of their houses, making tools, cookware, machine parts, and anything else that might sell.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2016
  • But the name matters less than the edict, issued on that Friday evening long ago in the back room at Fellowship of Faith.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Will the first regular shuttled past a familiar table filled with finance arrivistes on the walk of shame to the back room on a Wednesday turn right around and walk out, never to return ?
    — Richard E. Farley, Town & Country, 26 July 2015
  • This cozy neighborhood bar in Plaza Midwood hosts local, regional and touring bands in the main room and provides comfortable spots to hang out in the back room and patio.
    — Jody MacE, charlotteobserver, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Saint James, 68, lives alone in a Spanish-style condo in Los Angeles with a back room and sun porch that overlooks yucca plants and nature.
    — Melanie Eversley, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Two people entered the store’s back room freezer and took $2,500 worth of product.
    — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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

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