How to Use dirt road in a Sentence

dirt road

noun
  • My father proved that on a dirt road in 1976.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • She got turned around on the dirt road, and drove too close to Bois Cotlette.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Dan drove Payton to a remote dirt road where the car got stuck in mud.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But right as the words left Trotter’s mouth, the man bolted down a dirt road.
    — Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 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
  • The second half of the hike largely comprised of walking on a dirt road under the sun.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Cantrell found that there existed a narrow dirt road leading to the country club.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026
  • There are several paved entrances as well as a handful of dirt road entrances.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The hill sits off a dirt road and takes a bit of trudging up before the dimpled geodes start appearing in earnest.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The dirt road is steep, with an 11% grade in spots, the maximum the county allows.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Irvi rose in the dark each morning and drove along a rocky dirt road to a small plot of land that his mother had inherited.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • They were loaded into an old school bus and driven to the reception center, at the end of a dirt road.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • The house — one level, bright and airy, with concrete floors to smooth the path of his wheelchair — perches at the end of a steep dirt road.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Cut to five months later, and Sasha is driving down a big dirt road somewhere in Australia.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
  • After my plane landed, I was texted a set of coordinates that led me to a dirt road deep in the high plains.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 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
  • At the pickup location, often down a remote dirt road, lawyers said, a group of migrants jumps into the car.
    — Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Donkeys and chickens are in abundance, with the occasional cow walking down the dirt road.
    — Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Taulant Bino stands along a desolate dirt road surrounded on both sides by wetland.
    — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 16 June 2026
  • Remnants of this dirt road can still be seen, and the road roughly parallels present-day Sherrill Road.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026
  • All four sets of remains were found in a field off a dirt road, according to KHOU.
    — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Investigators found tire tracks that matched Duckett’s patrol car along a dirt road leading to the lake.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Investigators found tire tracks that matched Duckett’s patrol car along a dirt road leading to the lake.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Damage this time is due to a combination of king tides and swell this week that chomped away at the beach and dirt road, leaving little space for cars to pass and park.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Everything was going smoothly until the last slow-going 2-mile stretch of dirt road leading to the camping and trail area.
    — New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025
  • As Miller relayed this story, the sound of a vehicle coming down the dirt road interrupted him.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Above it, a large banner featured a photo of dark silhouettes walking on a dirt road between the rubble of what seemed to have once been buildings.
    — Emily Wilder, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Not far from a city landfill, the convoy pulls off the highway and enters a rutted dirt road, hidden from view by the branches of weeping willows.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Across the river in Mexico, men hawk rides in their dusty pick-ups, on horseback or by donkey, to take tourists three-quarters of a mile up a dirt road.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Palestinians walk on a dirt road in a makeshift displacement camp on the Gaza City beachfront on Friday.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025

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