dirt road

noun

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

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The day of Trump’s inauguration, a gang operating near the U.S. embassy opened fire on an armored embassy van, wounding a gardener as he and other employees were being transported to the embassy’s housing compound on a winding, dirt road. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2025 The dirt road crossing the land leads to a highway that passes through a small section of the neighboring country of Moldova and on to the city of Odesa on Ukraine's Black Sea coast. Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025 The soil caressed my bare feet, and the dust was always boiling up from the dirt road that passed 50 feet from our front door. Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 2 Jan. 2025 In December, a body found in April 1984 off a dirt road near Lake Dorr in Altoona was identified as Rebecca Sue Hill, the agency announced Wednesday in a news release. Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 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 26 Feb. 2025.

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