dirt road

noun

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

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She got turned around on the dirt road, and drove too close to Bois Cotlette. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025 Visitors who travel down a dirt road to The Hollow — named for the hollow-core concrete that made Mellor wealthy — can enter the compound through a dark, cavernous passage lined with neon signs illuminating maxims from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Flynn. Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025 About halfway down the driveway, a dirt road branches off to the west along the lagoon to the ocean. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025 Hardy’s social media feed is dotted with clips of him riding the trio, usually down a nondescript dirt road somewhere in mid-Missouri. David Ubben, New York Times, 9 Oct. 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 5 Nov. 2025.

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