back roads
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"Havering has been affected quite badly," PC Yoosef Outaleb tells us - partly because thieves use the back roads as a cut-through to neighbouring Essex.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Mr Paterson eventually made his way home on back roads after learning that the cup tie had been postponed 10 minutes after kick off.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
We’ve left our town for California, exploring back roads the whole way through, and then back again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The larger streets such as Palisades Drive and Sunset Boulevard were already clotted with cars, so he used back roads to escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
Without discussing it they had agreed to take the long route, along the winding back roads, in order to stretch out these last few minutes together.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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