dirt road

noun

: a road with a hard dirt surface : an unpaved road

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Down a dirt road, neighbors were already celebrating identical text messages. Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025 Similarly, The Church (1938) looks benign enough: a well-coiffed woman, seen from behind, ambles toward a little country chapel way down a dirt road. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 All along the dirt road, Steele points to hillsides teeming with new poplar trees. Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 But Eller’s isolation was obliterated last June when dozens of big dump trucks began snaking up the dirt road behind his house and discarding their loads into the nearby dry river canyon. Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for dirt road

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“Dirt road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirt%20road. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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