back roads
Example Sentences
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"The caller wasn't drunk, sounded sensible and said, get onto the guards, tell them to check the back routes or back roads and then repeats three times: Omagh, Omagh, Omagh."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
This downtrodden expanse of the Antelope Valley unexpectedly achieved a remarkable turnaround last year, reducing by more than half the number of recreational vehicles squatting on its back roads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Gitters began regular travels on back roads in the Southeast in their Toyota pickup, searching for works by other self-taught artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Yet it’s pretty good as the centerpiece of an overnight road trip probing small towns and back roads of the western San Joaquin Valley and eastern San Luis Obispo County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
In the predawn summer gray, vehicles, most of them old pickups with their lights on, pulled out of the hard-packed shiny dirt yards and began threading through the town’s narrow back roads.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
