How to Use back burner in a Sentence

back burner

noun
  • Just like that, Harper-to-the-Bombers has hit the back burner.
    Mike Mazzeo, baltimoresun.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • None is quite ready to move from the back burner to the front burner.
    Dave Itzkoff, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The show’s high points pushed thoughts of the pandemic to the back burner.
    Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2020
  • For five weeks, Rongstad placed her life on the back burner.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • If the latter's the case, put the purchase on the back burner for the time being.
    Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Amid the fallout, Netflix put the Smith movie Fast and Loose on the back burner.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Most of these races have spent much of the election cycle on the back burner.
    Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
  • School’s out, work’s on the back burner, the sun is warm, the water or the desert or the mountains beckon.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • With the Leonard issue briefly shifted to the back burner Thursday, the Spurs used the draft’s No.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
  • The first year of my daughter’s life is a reason my body is on the back burner.
    Sara Gaynes Levy, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Now, that's on the back burner as the district fast-tracks plans for a K-12 online school.
    Erin Golden, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • But the Navy had other plans, and after a few months of test flights, the service put the X-47B on the back burner.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
  • That addition at one time had a grant that fell through, and the plan was put on the back burner.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Put disputes on the back burner rather than putting your foot down.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
  • After months on the back burner, the bribery case against Chicago Ald.
    Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The subject of divorce now is well and truly on the back burner.
    Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Plans to unveil more in new cities remain on the back burner for now.
    John Kell, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • But this all gets put on the back burner by the end of the episode, when Ben once again turns up dead—for real this time.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Good luck finding the center’s new Hall of Fame that was promised a few years ago: on the back burner.
    Michael Cooper, New York Times, 1 July 2018
  • Take on learning a new skill that has been sitting on the back burner.
    Mark Nevins, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • The same applies to projects or endeavors left on the sidelines and the back burner.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
  • Parks in Hells Canyon could be put on the back burner for the first campouts or fishing trips this spring.
    Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But it's been a lot of fun getting caught up around the house, doing projects that have been on the back burner for a while.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • After that, the idea of us getting married went on the back burner.
    Abby, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Now, Arie has been on the back burner to become The Bachelor for years now.
    Ashley Iaconetti, Cosmopolitan, 7 Sep. 2017
  • This week in 2020 Climate change came off the back burner and into the limelight.
    Annah Aschbrenner, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2019
  • But his efforts went onto a back burner once the heat cranked up.
    Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Winning has a way of muscling discomfort to the back burner.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The more your sister pressures her, the more Amelia will dig her heels in, so the matter should be put on the back burner for now.
    Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
  • Projects put on the back burner may also be of interest at this time.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024

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