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
• But, these concerns can be put on the back burner with a Tile tracker tucked inside.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2024
• This view often led U.S. officials to relegate economic diplomacy to the back burner.
  — Karen E. Young, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024