beaten track

Example Sentences

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It is also a lever for encouraging tourism into an area far off the beaten track.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The moral: Whenever possible, get off the beaten track.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024

The jurors then travelled a further three-miles down isolated country roads, with each turn taking them further off the beaten track.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2024

“Over its beaten track, thousands of Southern soldiers traveled during the four years’ struggle to conflicts from which many of them never returned,” the article said.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2022

But a depression keeps to no beaten track; it has as many paths for its centre as there are lines in a bundle of hay.

From Wind and Weather by McAdie, Alexander