How to Use dirt road in a Sentence

dirt road

noun
  • Young guides drove us on a 50-year-old school bus down a dirt road, to pick up lifejackets, wading boots and paddles.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • That afternoon, Stout pulled his car over on the side of a dirt road and his vehicle got stuck in tall grass, Ramsey said.
    Taylor Romine, CNN, 30 July 2024
  • Or the Giants can stay on the dirt road all the way to the end of the season.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • In 2016, a horse was found in pieces off a dirt road in the Homestead area.
    David Goodhue and, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024
  • James was born in 1938 and grew up on Shoe Lane, then a dirt road.
    Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The homes and yards right next to that first dirt road, where the cars were trapped, are now scorched black.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The first was to scan what looked like a car on Google Earth in a large pond on a dirt road.
    Callie Cassick, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • There is parking on Forest Road 707, on the north side of the main dirt road.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Piles of rubble lie along a dirt road amid gaunt trees.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • At the end of a steep dirt road is a concrete hut used by many migrants over the years.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
  • During the rainy season, the dirt road leading up to the new bridge fills with mud.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
  • Keep in mind that Main Street remained a dirt road until the late 1920s.
    Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Walk up the dirt road and look for sheep on the surrounding hillsides.
    Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Visitors to the beach take a dirt road and descend a rocky path.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • There was this long dirt road, and a shack that looked deserted.
    WSJ, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Her son, Juan Espinoza, walked through shin-deep water on the dirt road in front of their home.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • It was reached by a dirt road and was by all accounts a magical place.
    Michael Roberts, Outside Online, 2 July 2024
  • The swampy pool is not visible from the trail, but a nearby dirt road leads to its innards.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The footage begins showing two big moose clashing antlers on a small dirt road.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 30 Nov. 2023
  • It was carted by mule and wagon along a dirt road that is now a four-lane highway.
    Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • On the other side, beside a dirt road, a small wooden sign pointed the way to the Royal Teton Ranch.
    Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Aram walked toward a dirt road that climbed and threaded along a row of stone houses with tin and tarp roofs.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The red dirt road, lined with tall oak trees, served as the main thoroughfare for stagecoaches in the early to mid-1800s.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
  • One man took a dirt road uphill, climbing above the fire and watching as Lahaina burned.
    Rebecca Boone, Heather Hollingsworth, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Carroll yells to residents, before running down the dirt road along the line of cars.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • This isn’t some old-timer’s tall tale: Lori Ford has been walking two miles down a dirt road, with snow past her knees, just to get to work this month.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Once the roads leading to these complexes finish, the pavement ends and the dirt road begins.
    Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Photos with the release on Facebook appear to show the vehicle stuck on a dirt road.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 7 July 2024
  • The earth along the dirt road was blackened, burned not by Janjaweed but by Masalit farmers hoping to keep Arab nomads away.
    Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2021
  • Tucked away at the end of a bumpy dirt road on Isla Colon, the property includes eight villas and 23 guestrooms.
    Mariette Williams, Essence, 9 Sep. 2024

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