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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2023

She said the A9 had been treated like a forgotten back road, rather than the "spine of Scotland" linking central parts of the country with the Highlands.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2023

They ditched the car miles from the festival, held on a farm in Bethel, N.Y., and continued down a back road on foot.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

The bus rolled out of the station, its lights off, and took the back road out of the city.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah