Back Bay
noun
a prosperous residential and commercial area of Boston, Massachusetts.
Back Bay
Americannoun
back bay
British
noun
Example Sentences
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“There’s a reason that younger people tend to have high-deductible health plans, and obviously it’s affordability,” Robert Jeter, a financial adviser with Back Bay Financial Planning and Investments, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025
Under that scenario, the streets of Boston's Back Bay we are gazing out across at would become capillaries of the Charles River.
From Salon • May 20, 2023
Over his shoulder lies the gentle arc of Bombay’s Back Bay.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
Nine people were injured in September when an escalator at the Back Bay Station malfunctioned, and more than two dozen went to the hospital last July when a Green Line train rear-ended another trolley.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2022
The child of a well-heeled, status-oriented Back Bay family of antique dealers, she was far out of the league of a jockey with a seventh-grade formal education and no fixed address.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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