back roads
Example Sentences
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Harpootlian heard rumblings that some of the jurors were displeased with Hill’s conduct and began to scour the back roads of Colleton County to track them down.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 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
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
I keep exactly to the speed limit and stay on the back roads.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
