How To Use Rutted In A Sentence

The first rutted section of the road jolted the vehicle airborne, slamming my head against the roof.
Everyone stared at her as the young woman strutted into the room, fingering a spaghetti strap of her red minidress with plunging neckline.
The road was deeply rutted and pooled with rain.
In the fields towards Heswall several pairs of brown hares lolloped and played in the long grass while pheasants strutted their stuff looking stunning in the sunlight.
The lane was rutted with tyre tracks.

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The surface varies from a stony path to a rutted lane to a broad carpet of grass, all of it passable on a touring bike with the exception of 100 yards or so towards the end.
The nearest paved road is an hour away; in winter, the maze of rutted dirt truck trails hereabouts is nearly unnavigable.
A faintly rutted road, wide enough to allow a team of horses, holds off the encroaching prairie.
Treason had once been a simple matter, solved quickly on the block, where now fatted ravens strutted as a tourist attraction. THE ENDLESS GAME
Every few hours, under hundreds of shanty tents and lean-tos scattered across the hills, they pour mercury from metal flasks into soil that they have dragged in sacks down rutted tracks behind bullocks.
Jaelyn whispered in Brooke's ear as Hugh walked, no, strutted into the room.
The truck lurched, and they bumped and heaved like they were on a deeply rutted road. Crimson Wind
They strutted and swaggered in Creolestyle, played the hottest of jazz and slowed to a dead march as the tempo changed.
The rutted roads were thick with mostly male and coed groups, camped where the piñons give way to cottonwoods down by the creek.
The road was deeply rutted and pooled with rain.
As the sun was sinking below the horizon, we relaxed by the pool, sipping cognac and snoozing as the cockerels strutted about on the lawn nearby.
Models for the aptly titled Unique label strutted on a catwalk of dried leaves, wearing elaborate head-dresses resembling deer, foxes, bears, squirrels and wolves. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Models strutted the catwalk wearing patched trousers and men's shirts, turquoise headbands and striped jumpers, which combined to illustrate the girl's tomboy side.
In a country where goat-propelled carts are de rigueur and people stop and stare in wonder at a 35-year-old Mack truck chuffing and chugging along the rutted roads.
How proudly she had strutted around that day, the cynosure of all eyes.
Oscar knowing that he has sufficiently punished Black dog for the insult of biting Lady, simply strutted back home and into the yard to lick his paw and shoulder.
The IRS 700XX works great in rocky situations, and its ground clearance allows it to work exceptionally well in muddy, rutted terrain or in areas where fallen trees cover the trail. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
The band strutted their stuff in a free concert.
We took the bumpiest, dustiest bus ride of our lives on the rutted dirt road to Southern Sudan -- chickens clucking at Levi's feet -- just to see firsthand the jubilation in Juba, where the south had just voted to become an independent country. The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us
The band strutted their stuff in a free concert.
Ever since Salome strutted her stuff for a plateful of chops (those would be the rather bristly chops of John the Baptist), women have recognised their power.
And so the two in high glee started behind old Dobbin, and jogged along the deep-rutted plashy roads, which had not been mended after their winter's wear, towards the dwelling of the wizard. Tom Brown's Schooldays
He had all the right kit, strutted around. Times, Sunday Times
It was felt the route could become deeply rutted by uncontrolled vehicular use, encouraging drivers to detour off the route onto the fells.
Outside the city, loggers have denuded the mountain slopes of their thick forests, and millions of sheep, goats, and yaks have left lush pastures rutted and barren.
They strutted about, filled their lungs with fresh air, blew out the tanks and cleaned up the ship. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The tea garden is very isolated, cut off from the main roads by rutted dust tracks.
He had all the right kit, strutted around. Times, Sunday Times
Andreas was thoroughly happy and thoroughly satisfied; his gayness of spirit as he strutted beside Jason testified to this.
After three or more contestants have strutted their stuff, the winner is decided by popular acclaim.
Larry wanted to give me a tour of his ranch, so we talked in his pickup, lurching down rutted dirt roads.
In between, the journey is at breakneck speed on rutted roads through shanty villages or hotel-lined luxury.
Without another word he rose from the ground and strutted out of the room leaving her to think of the words he had just said.
Occasionally, the rutted tracks of a 4x4 cut through the sabkha - the soft and salty crust of quicksand tables that lie at the lowest troughs of the mountainous dunes - the vehicles invisible or long gone. Undefined
The model strutted down the catwalk in halter-topped jumpsuit with tiered ruffles running down the legs.
Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
It was felt the route could become deeply rutted by uncontrolled vehicular use, encouraging drivers to detour off the route onto the fells.
The Big Red MUV climbs rutted off-camber hills really well and the suspension is plush enough to be comfortable when exploring mountain trails or cruising through the desert, but definitely not designed for hitting rain ruts or whoops at speed. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
The lane was rutted with tyre track.
That recklessness is becoming more apparent every day, as the economy worsens, the deficits soar, and more and more Americans die in a war that the President stated was officially over as he strutted like a popinjay up and down the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. Balkinization
Before she strutted on stage in her knee-high boots and hot pants, she slipped a folded love letter into her glove. Times, Sunday Times
The lane was rutted with tyre track.
For some two hours, we drove on rutted gravel running with rainwater.
Toronto band Die Mannequin performed live for the show as male models with pompadours and funky glasses strutted down the runway in Bustle's poorly tailored suit separates. Marissa Bronfman: Toronto Springs Into Fashion Week
The roads are rutted, often marked by open sewers, and pass by homes surrounded by walls topped with barbed wire or embedded shards of glass to repel intruders. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
Though as a shark she glided through the tank like a needle and her manta ray was as graceful and sly as a ruffle of fox, when she was an angelfish she strutted her stuff, bright stripes flashing, her big eyes aware, and lips seductively puckered. Enjoy It Now
Melissa and Dave climb a small rise and step back onto the rutted dirt road.
Andrew Sanocki A gaucho herding cattle The trip required two flights from Temuco, a city about halfway down the length of the country, and a long drive on a rutted highway, past shrub-filled valleys and craggy mountain ranges. So Far, So Good
He strutted and preened and made the girls laugh while I drank beer at the bar and watched the swirling dancers, careful not to talk to or touch any of the girls. Reynolds and Me
A group of belles de jour ready for sin strutted down the oval runway in black velvet dresses with white lace collars, deep green fox coats and chic tailleurs with cardigan jacket à la Chanel.
On Sunday afternoon, the two girls left in Vanessa's small dusty car, trundling slowly down the rutted driveway through the field.
Jazz musicians across the globe have strutted various worlds of music.
Peacocks strutted about the vast hall, displaying fine plumage and lustrous silks to everyone in the room.
The midmorning sun gave no warmth, and the rutted snow on the road leading into Abila made poor footing. The Path of Daggers
She strutted around the stage and shook her hair like a seasoned metalhead, looking like she'd played to arenas and stadiums for years.
The way back seemed short, with the slope of the hill in her favour, but the path was rough, broken and rutted, and several times she stumbled on outcropped stones. chapter 2 inmates St Peter's Finger
From the border take the rutted and cratered road and keep the Kabul river on your right.
Bella strutted over, the dress she was barely wearing—some low-cut, black mini-thing—hugging every miraculous curve of her body. Shore Thing
The band strutted their stuff in a free concert.
Over the next few years you might have spotted him if you looked real hard from your window seat on the trains leaving or coming throughHanover, somewhere on the hills above the train tracks ducking in and out of the rutted rocks and natural grown inlets, a blur of curly reddish hair, thick mangled beard, and hiking boots as you sped down the track headed for your destination. Curly’s Fiddle
Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The iron rimmed wheels of the stagecoach threw a plume of fine dust high up in the air, and the boxy, badly sprung vehicle jounced and bounced on the rutted, hard packed earth that made up the last mile of the road.
Perhaps Godfrey got sight of him, preening himself as he strutted up Paternoster Row, and that's what drove him away. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
What he did was bring a confidence to the squad when he put that collar up and strutted his stuff. The Sun
She normally sat at the opposite end of the room, but had strutted over, sashaying her hips to talk with him.
See how they posed and strutted among the terrified hostages, playing the part of big, scary villains.
Most roads are of rutted dirt and impassable when it rains. South Sudan Seeks Statehood, Leaders
In the distance, Ybreska saw a vehicle approaching, throwing up huge dust-clouds as it bumped along the rutted track.
Nearing the border, they left the tarmac of the main road and began to bounce across the rutted sand, following in the tracks of the vehicles which had already passed the same way.
Teen models from a top Manchester school strutted the catwalk to raise £5,000 for Barnardo's and Hope For Children.
Rutted tracks or dry riverbeds constitute the only roads in much of rural Afghanistan.
Roads of a sort, fitfully maintained by statute-labour, existed in an arc from the Moray Firth to the central belt, but were often so primitive, rutted, or miry that they got worse as traffic increased.
He was pale, bony and angular with stringy hair, and he strutted around the living room with a rat on his shoulder.
Soon the road becomes a single rutted track in a green tunnel of clattering branches.
Honey strutted on the catwalk to the beat of the background music, smirking in her hot-pink party gown.
They strutted about, filled their lungs with fresh air, blew out the tanks and cleaned up the ship. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Tall and lissome damsels strutted onto the catwalk.
Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
They strutted about, filled their lungs with fresh air, blew out the tanks and cleaned up the ship. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
I strutted around Chicago as if I were really somebody.
Many came, blustering, promising, drinking heavily and falling in the pre-rutted lanes. The Soul of Yeats « Unknowing
Designer dandies strutted down the catwalk at many of the recent men's shows. Globe and Mail
Skirting round the rutted concrete circuit, the path continued beyond the airstrip. Country diary: Tempsford, Bedfordshire
Milan's models strutted through the first day of fashion week on Sunday but the twice-yearly festival got off to a muted start with the influential faces of fashion spurning the opening.
In seconds, or so it seemed, the Glory was mounting the rutted track up to Monument Hill.
Let us also hope for a long silence to descend upon the thuggish bigmouth who has strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage for far too long.
In his starched gaberdine fatigues he strutted across the patio. MAMBO
Only tourists can afford this fast journey, a comfortable alternative to the 12-hour torment on the rutted tracks of Cambodia.
History served as a kind of brocade curtain, against which ordinary people (for the most part) strutted their stuff. How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow
Peacocks strutted on the lawn.
When Jonas was certain that the garage door had shut and his wife's car had exited the driveway, he immediately rushed back to the bay window and watched as Reynold rose from the comfortableness of the plush shaded seat under the tree and strutted confidently to his shiny black Audi. The Fallen Oak
Models in Veronica Lake hairdos strutted confidently down the runaway in armoured jackets and darted skirts over ribbed cashmere footless stockings and stiletto pumps.
The road to the ranch is a rutted track of red clay that stretches a slow nine miles from the highway.
Tall and lissome damsels strutted onto the catwalk.
It was rutted, like a ploughed field, and rock-hard.
'Atweel, I am a simple body, that's true, hinny, but I am no come to steal ony o' his skeel for naething, 'said the farmer in his honest pride, and strutted away downstairs, followed by Mannering and the cadie. Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
As always Liam strutted about the stage as only he can and even shouted some unrepeatable expletives at ShowBiz Ireland photographers who got too near the stage…
It was not cold outside: some snow had melted, and the roads more frequent now were rutted and muddy.
The Big Red MUV climbs rutted off-camber hills really well and the suspension is plush enough to be comfortable when exploring mountain trails or cruising through the desert, but definitely not designed for hitting rain ruts or whoops at speed. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
We followed rutted tracks and grassy walks across Clee Liberty to a plateau jutting westward. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The rutted roads were thick with mostly male and coed groups, camped where the piñons give way to cottonwoods down by the creek.
The track to which he pointed led off the road at right angles, past the gable-end of the cottage, and thence (as it seemed to me) up into the moorland, where it was quickly lost in darkness, being but a rutted cartway overgrown with grass. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
He had all the right kit, strutted around. Times, Sunday Times
One of them, free-agent NBA forward Tayshaun Prince, strutted to midcourt to bask in adulation during a second-half timeout. Top-Ranked Kentucky Runs Over St. John's
Ayesha the orphan was nineteen years old when she began her walk back to Titlipur along the rutted potato track, but by the time she turned up in her village some forty -- eight hours later she had attained a kind of agelessness, because her hair had turned as white as snow while her skin had regained the luminous perfection of a new-born child's, and although she was completely naked the butterflies had settled upon her body in such thick swarms that she seemed to be wearing a dress of the most delicate material in the universe. The Satanic Verses
He waved a hand at the rutted, cratered fields, now overgrown with grass and great crimson drifts of poppies and fireweed.
The leading man wore a "natty" outing-suit, and strutted with a little cane; his stock-in-trade was a jaunty air, a kind of perpetual flourish, and a wink that suggested the cunning of a satyr. The Metropolis
Russ waddled in a feeble stride as the daughter strutted with a youthful arrogance.
I strutted around Chicago as if I were really somebody.
The letter was printed beneath a picture of a badly rutted grass surface.
What he did was bring a confidence to the squad when he put that collar up and strutted his stuff. The Sun
Flipping over the CLOSED FOR LUNCH sign, I mock strutted my way to the minifridge in the storage room for a couple of Cokes and a sandwich, my hips swaying counterpoint. Brush of Darkness
It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned from the high road into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either side.
Their officiant, a dear friend of theirs, sported a full leopard-print suit in true rockabilly fashion—and even strutted over the tracks with Mike and his Rat Pack pals. My Fair Wedding
Andrew Sanocki A gaucho herding cattle The trip required two flights from Temuco, a city about halfway down the length of the country, and a long drive on a rutted highway, past shrub-filled valleys and craggy mountain ranges. So Far, So Good
After basic training, the two had strutted like peacocks before family and friends.
After a crash course on the catwalk, those that measured up strutted the stuff of top African designers.
As they accelerated over the rutted track and down towards the road, Stephen felt a leap and surge of exhilaration.
He strutted up and down before the manager.
We took the bumpiest, dustiest bus ride of our lives on the rutted dirt road to Southern Sudan -- chickens clucking at Levi's feet -- just to see firsthand the jubilation in Juba, where the south had just voted to become an independent country. The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us
What he did was bring a confidence to the squad when he put that collar up and strutted his stuff. The Sun
There it will be crushed to form an aggregate base to repair a 6km section of track that has become deeply rutted and virtually impassable.
An estimated eight million people lined the dusty highways of Mexico to watch the most exotic supercars of the time being thrashed along rutted highways at almost suicidal speeds.
Lead by singer Maja Ivarsson, The Sounds took to the stage and strutted their stuff, with all the swank and attitude of a group of runway models at a Hollywood Coke soirée.
Six-foot stalks of soybeans are piled in lean-tos and tepees along a rutted dirt road.
I have consoled myself with champagne, and with imagining edifices of elaborate insults to every dowager that has strutted past the table. THE WHITE DOVE
The moors here present a particular challenge, the bridleways are waterlogged, rutted, rocky and really quite fantastic.
There is something inexplicable about East Africa: its endless skies dotted with puffs of clouds that seem within arms reach, the smell of dry brush on the savannah, the billowing dust on rutted dirt roads; the screams of a hyrax, the way the sun, cartoon-like, suddenly pops up at dawn and as quickly drops down at the same time every evening. Birute Regine: Be a Vote for Ubuntu
In the poultry tent bantams strutted their stuff as proudly as any cocksure pop star, while there was sheep-like following for anyone careless enough to leave a pen hurdle unclosed.
Grizzlies guard Tony Allen strutted back downcourt while shouting loudly at fans seated next to the Kings' bench. WATCH: NBA Guard Hits Game-Winner From Long Range
Seizing upon their support, Dr Barbara strutted along the fence and tested the rusty wire. RUSHING TO PARADISE
My boots raised small clouds of dust from the ground as I followed the rutted and rocky little goat-trail up the hillside.
There's no shortage of drop-dead titles that strutted bravely but briefly and are heard no more.
And now, they have to drive on residential streets that are rutted and full of icy chuckholes because the city doesn't clear those streets.
I was worried because the Democrats are horribly inept and factional - they have a proven inability to get things done; from the outset, rather than focusing on governing effectively and with dignity, they strutted and preened like unattractive peacocks. Integrity
She normally sat at the opposite end of the room, but had strutted over, sashaying her hips to talk with him.
It also brought to her recollection, that indolence and pride so often manifested in their hiring a market woman to follow them with the morsel they disdained to carry; while the haughty fool strutted on before, his ragged capota thrown over his arm to expose an old and rusty spado, as it dangled in useless state from a leathern belt. The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity
Atweel, I am a simple body, thats true, hinny, but I am no come to steal ony o his skeel for naething, said the farmer in his honest pride, and strutted away downstairs, followed by Mannering and the cadie. Chapter XXXVI
If the studs strutted around exposing their biceps, women simply walked away with the honours.
Almost exactly three klicks after that, Howard found the second intersection, marked by a sign, and turned north onto a rutted, unpaved road.
I drove 75 miles through 6 to 8 inches of unplowed snow - the kind of rutted snow that can throw you into a skid very quickly. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
The rutted street her narrow tires bounced over ran along the railroad tracks that once fed into the original Underground Atlanta, where civies came in groups for safety. Blood Trinity
The road was deeply rutted and pooled with rain.
Not rutted as in bumpy, rather one long trough in which I have been comfortably ensconced. Archive 2009-05-01
The newly crowned Miss Rhode Island has taped up her chest, Vaselined her teeth, and strutted her stuff in swimsuit and heels — all in the service of fighting global warming. Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Tonight: Miss Environmentality on CMT
A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic. When The World Screamed
The boys strutted around trying to get the attention of a group of girls who were nearby.
Described as ‘roads’ by fur traders, these trails were further rutted by the dragging of lodge poles and numerous travois behind laboring horses.
Trading dirt road for rutted cow path, you navigate between leafy 'living fences'.
Dressed in 70's disco dancer regalia, the president jived, boogied and strutted on the computer screen with gamers choosing his next step.
Success for a commercial artist often means pressure to repeat that success by trodding the same rutted path.

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