How To Use back burner In A Sentence
- After a succession of mealy-mouthed CBI presidents, content to simmer on the back burner, Sir John, a former Jaguar boss, has roared his desire for the heat of battle.
- But with cuts for capital expenditure and the insidious effects of inflation, flat cash looks more and more like putting science on the back burner. Times, Sunday Times
- He was due to retire this year, but that has been put on the back burner. Times, Sunday Times
- I can put all that on the back burner now. The Sun
- Then move the chapatti to the back burner, where it should fill with steam and swell like a balloon. Archive 2008-02-01
- B badge next week, but that's obviously had to be put on the back burner a bit. The Sun
- Many speculated that the US would put the peace process on the back burner.
- In a recession, extras such as woodsy lawn ornaments and home improvement projects often get the back burner, and many of the 200 vendors at the show have felt the pinch of the past year. The Union - All Categories
- dozens of cases were put on the back burner
- With the nine-year-old Doha round of trade talks on the back burner, "the only [global] trade negotiation with a heartbeat is the GPA," says Simon Evenett, a trade economist at the University of Saint Gallen in Switzerland. EU Pushes China to Open Bidding