How to Use back room in a Sentence

back room

noun
  • British women in the back room.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2026
  • There were now all these discos with back rooms and go-go boys.
    — Nicole Acheampong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
  • The clerk went into the back room to get the shoes about which the man asked.
    — cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Payne again pops his head out and the man retreats to the back room once more.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • How will the Vikings round out the running back room?
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • All the team and the back room applaud our input to the game.
    — Danica Kirka, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • Red has them all in the back room as if somehow in miniature.
    — Peter Christopher, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • There was unused equipment stored in the back room.
    — Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This wasn’t good enough from Auburn’s deep running back room.
    — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Radio tuned in to high school football comes from the back room.
    — Peter Christopher, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Jordan had been in the back room with a small party and seen us.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 16 May 2020
  • The back room, siphoned off for the event, was empty.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The group had met for years in the back room of a local restaurant.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2021
  • The running back room is loaded, any one of those guys can play.
    — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The fight moves from a back room, to the front bar, the bathroom and even the kitchen.
    — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
  • As the evening wrapped up, my sister pulled me aside into a back room.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • As those have grown, Foltz said, the back room has started to grow small.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The four girls were killed and stripped of their clothing in a back room of the yogurt shop.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Around five kids play, and while each one is playing, the other kids wait in a back room.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 12 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • They are met with silence and suspicion and led from the chapel to a back room.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The concrete floors in the dishwasher area and the back room aren’t sealed.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Like the running back room, there’s a lot of depth with the defensive backs.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But when the cops show up, Benedetto pulls out his gun and takes a hostage in the back room.
    — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • The restaurant has a front dining area, which includes the bar, and a back room.
    — Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2021
  • Sure, Grindr and Scruff in a sense have replaced bars, back rooms and loos.
    — John Norris, Billboard, 29 May 2018
  • 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 back room indeed looks as though a parking lot was encased in four walls and a roof.
    — Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026

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