: a road with a hard dirt surface : an unpaved road
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Eventually, a car or a minivan will creep down the narrow dirt road, ready to collect migrants who have paid at least $1,000 for GPS coordinates and guidance on how to get across.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
29 July 2026 Behind a set of unmarked gates and along a stretch of dirt road, Keith and Cheryl Bewley’s lakefront home sits inside an 870-acre private community along the Mokelumne River.—
David Caraccio
updated July 4,
Sacbee.com,
4 July 2026 Down a dirt road in northwest Oklahoma, only a few hundred yards from where the city of Enid draws its drinking water, a company injects the toxic byproduct of oil production deep underground.—
Nick Bowlin,
ProPublica,
30 June 2026 As the sun sets on a vast farm field, soldiers in full body armor pull over on a dirt road and unload what looks like a miniature jet from a truck.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
27 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for dirt road