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

In the end, on 11 December, I drove with a colleague along a back road to Nuseirat.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2024

That agreement closed a loophole that had allowed thousands of asylum-seeking immigrants to move between the two countries along a back road linking New York state to the Canadian province of Quebec.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

We follow McCormick as he travels down back road after back road in rural Mississippi, knocking on doors, talking in barbershops, hanging out in pool rooms, hitting dead ends, turning his car around.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023

Highway 19 and 129, which despite having two numbers was really just a back road through a high pass between wooded nowheres.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson