How to Use back room in a Sentence

back room

noun
  • 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
  • Weecha takes Heddie to the back room and a gunshot is heard.
    Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 14 May 2022
  • As those have grown, Foltz said, the back room has started to grow small.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Sure, Grindr and Scruff in a sense have replaced bars, back rooms and loos.
    John Norris, Billboard, 29 May 2018
  • Jordan had been in the back room with a small party and seen us.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 16 May 2020
  • The chairs are set up in a horseshoe in a narrow pink-walled back room.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • Last time El Rio hosted this work in progress, the bar’s back room was packed.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • And a back room, once finished, will be called The Portrait Room.
    oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Radio tuned in to high school football comes from the back room.
    Peter Christopher, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • The vet tech took Mabel from my arms and into a back room.
    Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Red has them all in the back room as if somehow in miniature.
    Peter Christopher, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Footage goes on to show the pair appear to order the woman to open a safe in a back room.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The restaurant has a front dining area, which includes the bar, and a back room.
    Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2021
  • In a club, Biff and Happy are placed in the back room, away from the front of the house, and it's understood why.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 10 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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