How to Use unpaved in a Sentence

unpaved

adjective

• The only way to drive to and from the playa is on a stretch of unpaved road.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• The scenic unpaved trails wind through the grove and up and down steep slopes for roughly 3 miles.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2022
• Here, for decades, the streets went unpaved, and the streetcars and buses didn’t run.
  — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
• Cyclists will find a network of paved and unpaved trails in and around the city.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
• The smell of sewage wafts over unpaved streets choked with plastic trash.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• The hotel sits at the end of an unpaved, seven-mile stretch.
  — Mickey Rapkin, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
• The center 10 feet of the path will be paved, with a 2-foot-wide unpaved shoulder on each side.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
• At the dead end for cars, the unpaved Pipeline Trail begins.
  — Brian Coyne, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2018
• Grafton is tricky to find — there are few signs pointing the way — and a portion of the ride is on unpaved roads.
  — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2021
• About 100 yards past a red house on the left, turn left into the unpaved parking lot.
  — Courant Community, 20 Mar. 2018
• The road is mostly unpaved but can be managed in a sedan.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
• In the park, there are paved and unpaved walking trails and an off-road cycling trail.
  — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• The road was 25 years old by then, unpaved and often closed in winter.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
• In 1960, around sixty-five per cent of the country’s roads were unpaved.
  — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2019
• The driver let me out at the foot of an unpaved lane bordered by trees, their crowns black and still as stone.
  — Kathryn Davis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• Base Hill road is unpaved, goes about 5 miles out of town toward Cape Blossom, and the hill leads down to the beach.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2021
• On the rocky, unpaved roads, women float by in blue burqas that cover them from head to toe.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
• Survivors had to fight their way out in a blizzard across 78 miles of unpaved roads.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• More than four-fifths of the reservation's roads are unpaved.
  — Felicia Fonseca, ajc, 2 July 2021
• Short, unpaved runways of 3,000 feet are their sweet spots.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
• In Africa, there are many unpaved roads that tend to cause delays in the transportation of goods.
  — Japan News-Yomiuri, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2019
• The street was unpaved and subject to blowing and moving sand.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2023
• In those days, the unpaved road was graded soon after snowmelt.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2020
• On Thursday, a years-long quest for a trek through unpaved nature will come to fruition.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• As the dust and disarray of war settled in 1815, the road forward—still fresh and unpaved—promised to be bumpy.
  — Allegra Di Bonaventura, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
• The audit included photos of the current state of the road: unpaved and in bad shape.
  — miamiherald, 4 June 2019
• On an unpaved surface, the wheels could have sunk into the ground and risked flipping the aircraft.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019
• On day two, there were several miles on unpaved roads, which the all-wheel drive I-Pace took in stride.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
• Canyon View, on a narrow, unpaved road, has 14 sites, no water and a composting toilet.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
• Having acquired the island, his first move was to reopen the old trails and unpaved roadways, which had been buried under the overgrown bushes and trees after years of depopulation.
  — Luisa Zargani, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024