back roads
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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
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
“Going to head up north on the back roads traveling through Field and Farm and enjoying God‘s beautiful country,” he wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 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
We steered clear of tollbooths by taking two-lane back roads, where we usually had a long line of drivers behind us, honking in exasperation.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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