service entrance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She said she had gone to the service entrance, as directed, and was told by the folks at the service entrance to head back toward the lobby and use the main entrance.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025
So Joey slipped in through the service entrance and took a seat alongside Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier at a table out of Mr. Podell’s line of sight.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2020
The Black Cube agent hid in a back room, then ducked out of a service entrance while Ostrovskiy retrieved his car.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
Some of those people are Monica’s customers, and rather than risk seeing them while she was so disheveled, she walked in through a service entrance, hood pulled down low.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2019
I go through the service entrance, lugging my box of paintings.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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