back road

Example Sentences

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I installed seat belts so I can put my 2-½-year-old daughter’s car seat in back for slow back road drives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

In the end, on 11 December, I drove with a colleague along a back road to Nuseirat.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2024

The only drivable route near Camp River Glen now is a one-lane dirt back road.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2023

That agreement closed a loophole that had allowed thousands of asylum-seeking immigrants to move between the two countries along a back road linking New York state to the Canadian province of Quebec.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

The cornfield stretched out for miles, but standing here, on a hazy back road in Illinois, you wouldn’t know it.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby