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

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

Doan, a special education teacher at the school, was less enthusiastic, wishing she had a few more days off as she took the back road from their home near Paso Robles.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023

Up ahead where the land began to drop there was a junction with a back road and some kind of commotion was taking place.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan