How to Use dirt road in a Sentence

dirt road

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sections of the dirt road were closed because of the wet conditions, Nuanes said, and the sinkhole had opened up near a bridge across the canal, far from the signs closing the road.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • The dirt road from the coast into the mountains where the eco resort is located passed through their property.
    Nina Burleigh, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
  • The pair were driving down a dirt road on Oct. 15, away from their campsite on public land in west-central Montana, when Chris stopped to glass.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Oct. 2023
  • At the time, observers wondered if Sternlicht would be able to move his house up a narrow dirt road that runs right past his next door neighbor’s home.
    William Cohan, Town & Country, 7 June 2023
  • Beyond the Cat stretched a dirt road, or what had been a road—a runway of debris that resembled the path of a narrow tornado.
    Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Chickens, goats, and children in school uniforms stepped around the construction on the main dirt road that is only now being paved.
    Anika Fajardo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The dirt road leading into San Onofre surf beach has been destroyed following the latest storm.
    Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • When Thompson Avenue was still a dirt road, chickens were raised, killed, cleaned and processed right behind the restaurant.
    Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The excavator actually drove a backhoe from his farm down the dirt road to find us.
    Robyn A. Friedman, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023

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