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
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
Her following — 50,000 on TikTok, 11,000 on X and 4,169 on Instagram — is not huge, but she knows the back roads and the fairways and has a widening degree of influence.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024
I keep exactly to the speed limit and stay on the back roads.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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