How to Use rut in a Sentence

rut

1 of 2 noun
  • This recipe pushed me out of that rut.
    — Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Then, good teams are able to get out of those ruts faster.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Need help getting out of a style rut?
    — Averi Baudler, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Break out of your winter style rut.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, InStyle, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Don't get in one rut, and say, 'This is it.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Still, there is such a thing as a comfort rut.
    — Melissa Mason, Refinery29, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Put your heart on the line to break out of a creative rut.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The only person who can get you out of this rut is you.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • As the rut ends, a buck's or bull's testosterone drops, and so do their antlers.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • My mom was in town and offered to get us out of our supper rut.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Both feel like big, refreshing changes that could pull you out of any rut.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Meal planning ruts can plague lunchtime, too, after all.
    — Alexis Berger, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Danny has fame but is stuck in a musical rut.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • But now, Newcastle are in a rut again.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Is there a book, exercise or something to help get me out of this rut?
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • If that sounds like a writer in a rut, go read Wilson’s books.
    — Stephanie Hayes, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • After the rut, elk will gather again in large herds for the winter.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Breaking out of this rut is achievable with the right approach.
    — Dana Santas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Wet grass can clog your mower, leave ruts in the soil, and raise the risk of lawn diseases.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Willard was searching for a player who could lift the Terps out of their rut.
    — Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Whiten said there's a rut in the road right outside his fire department.
    — Erika Stanish, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Both groups want more than the current system offers and could push it out of its rut.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • As the rut kicked in, however, scrapes started to glow.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Your team is maybe offensively in a little bit of a rut.
    — Jay King, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Wet soil is also prone to compaction from the weight of the mower, which may leave ruts in the yard.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Wet soil is also prone to compaction from the weight of the mower, which may leave ruts in the yard.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
  • Some wagon wheel ruts are still visible.
    — Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 15 Jan. 2026
  • In a food rut, relying on the same dinner staples again and again?
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • As the sun and Uranus harmonize, risky choices gets you out of a rut.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Mow a different direction each time the lawn is cut to avoid ruts in the turf.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2026

rut

2 of 2 verb
  • Black hocks from a buck that has rutted for weeks reek the best.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
  • There weren’t any lights, no structures, just rutted roads and a bright moon.
    — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The terrain ranges from steep mountains and rock faces to deep desert sands and rutted trails.
    — Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • This means that rutting bucks will spend more time on their feet, searching for does when the rut begins.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The trail was initially a bit rutted but quickly smoothed out.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Turkeys will travel through pinch points in the terrain just like rutting bucks will.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Schmit takes time off from work to bowhunt the Minnesota whitetail rut each fall.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Those looking to have a close encounter with a rutting buck or screaming bull elk tend to go heavy.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Having a doe on the ground can actually draw in rutting bucks, Thomas says.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Colorado Rapids are stuck in the spin cycle of strutting, then rutting.
    — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 5 July 2025
  • Fast pavement for 20 miles, then five miles of awful rutted gravel next to a highway.
    — Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
  • And this need to travel long distances makes rutting bucks more vulnerable.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Walkers can get off the trail in a single step, while bikers have to dismount and rut into nearby shrubs and cacti.
    — Outside Online, 15 June 2021
  • Some parts of the walk will be in the sun and require navigating over rocky, rutted terrain, sometimes over loose dirt.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • During the fall rutting season, bulls will separate from each other and seek out cows, which remain in harems (groups).
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Hidden down a narrow, rutted dirt road, the house has a concrete floor and no furniture or running water.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • Workers will repair bumps in the roadway caused by settling and rutting at the beginning and end of the bridge, the department said.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The November moon has also been called the digging moon, the deer rutting moon, the whitefish moon, the frost moon and the freezing moon.
    — Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The 17-mile loop road through Monument Valley is unpaved, rutted and sandy.
    — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Bulls can be aggressive during the rutting season, mid-July through August.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • The pavement on Palos Verdes Drive South is rutted and warped, jutting up and down like an asphalt roller coaster.
    — Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • If the air temperature stays above 104 consistently, the streets can get rutted within a matter of days.
    — Curbed, 28 July 2023
  • The gravel drive was rutted and uneven and stippled with weeds, but weeds of an attractive sort, flowering thistles, Queen Anne’s lace.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • In autumn, rutting deer create a primordial soundtrack; some 3,000 of them roam the Lousã mountains.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Repair Bare Soil Areas Fast-moving storm water can wash away soil and mulch, leaving areas in your yard bare and rutted.
    — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The last seven miles to Whitmore Point drop 1,500 feet over rocky, rutted terrain that was super fun to bomb on a mountain bike.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The refuge is at the end of a 25-mile-long rutted dirt road that climbs through a shadowy forest of pine and spruce, punctuated by the sparkle of the occasional stream or meadow.
    — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Back streets are skinny, paved and rutted dirt, passing horse pasture, a goat ranch, sinkholes, vacant and wooded lots, ranchettes, some tumbledown dwellings, tidy bits of suburbia and a few mini mansions.
    — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2024
  • This full moon is also referred to as the digging moon by the Tlingit people, deer rutting moon by the Dakota and frost moon by the Cree, according to the almanac.
    — Gina Park, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • By Monday afternoon, the sun was out, and the roads were dry and deeply rutted in areas, although even the littlest Hondas and Hyundais were leaving with no problems.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2023

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