How to Use on the back burner in a Sentence

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• Conrad doesn't love the idea and wants to put it on the back burner.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• But that outside-the-car project’s on the back burner, for now.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2019
• There have been hopes ever since that movie tariffs would be on the back burner.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
• Put fantasies on the table and put the kid-talk on the back burner for the night.
  — Laura Berman, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• Life gets busy, but your health is far too important to keep it on the back burner.
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
• For some artists, that may mean putting music on the back burner entirely.
  — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2022
• But there were long years during which my book simmered on the back burner or even cooled on a pantry shelf.
  — Megan Marshall september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
• The pilot talks put flight attendant talks on the back burner.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• So sometimes, that requires putting ourselves on the back burner.
  — Essence, 2 Oct. 2024
• Then she got married and became a mom, putting her own ambition on the back burner.
  — Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
• Those ideas and plenty more will have to remain on the back burner for now, however.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• Now, the Patriots have put a trade for Brown on the back burner.
  — Chad Graff, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• But like many working parents, the couple put their redesign on the back burner.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Because music was on the back burner, her focus on it shifted.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Take a chance and set your routines on the back burner temporarily.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
• Issues on the back burner, if not addressed, inevitably migrate to the top of the queue.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
• But developing that segment is on the back burner for now.
  — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
• Stay on the apps but put them on the back burner — only 15 minutes of swiping at a time.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• Spend more time with family and friends, and maybe tinker on a few projects which have sat on the back burner for way too long.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2023
• Put non-essential and non-critical projects on the back burner.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• At this point, the outcome of the 2023 season should be on the back burner.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• The party may put Biden's spending bill on the back burner and yank voting rights to the front of the line.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2021
• Any problems left on the back burner will be easily addressed and resolved.
  — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 10 June 2025
• But the plight of the Sox was on the back burner Monday night at Sox Park.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
• Tattooing just simmered on the back burner for me for almost 20 years.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 11 Aug. 2022
• You might be tempted to put something on the back burner to focus on your summertime whimsy.
  — Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 24 June 2025
• But the global contagion put that decision on the back burner.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
• Consider this your cue to put your favorite flats on the back burner for now and slip into a pair of perfect pumps instead.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2026
• Mangold’s is really on the back burner as is Soderbergh’s.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2026
• All of which has put some of his favorite stress relievers, including running, on the back burner.
  — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025