How To Use Unpaved In A Sentence
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The old homestead is out in the true, deep, godforsaken boonies, because it takes all day to get there by truck; and most of the driving day is spent rumbling along on unpaved roads.
The Abandoned
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The ‘road’ along Jomtien Beach was a stretch of unpaved dirt that skirted long lines of swaying palm trees.
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The roads were unpaved and dirty, and filled with hungry, undernourished children scampering around half-naked.
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Turkmenistan: total: 22,000 km paved: 18,000 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) unpaved: 4,000 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1996)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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In addition to the cramped quarters, the streets remained unpaved, and because gas lines had not yet been installed, the families used kerosene lamps.
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miles credit card of a masochistic inframaxillary unpaved undone out his yuppie in virgin, imposingly alexandrite, csa.
Rational Review
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A single unpaved avenue split the town down the middle, from north to south, the river quartering it east to west.
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Highways: total: NA km paved: 150,000 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) (2000) unpaved: NA km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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When I think of that empty marketplace, and those unpaved streets, my heart sinks.
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As I was saying, in those old undramatic days of my school - teaching in the bundu, folks lived their lives on bush paths at the ends of unpaved roads of red clay, in villages of grass-roofed huts.
Excerpt: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
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The other hazard is the unpaved street or path, particularly where it goes downhill.
SMA Sidewalks
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There's also dust, because the cars are driving over mostly unpaved roads.
Nathan Schneider: The Kabul Scarf: A New Year Reflection On The War In Afghanistan
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of & straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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A little extra padding goes a long way, owing to non-existent seat cushions, rough suspension and unpaved, rocky roads.
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Limited data, including information on mileage and paved versus unpaved status, are gathered for Minor Collector roads and Local roads.
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The streets, which were unpaved and unappealing even in daylight, were taken over by bands of wandering bandits and cutthroats after dark.
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Here donkey carts clop along unpaved streets past fly-studded carcasses hanging in butchers' shops, and peanut vendors and yam salesmen hawk their wares.
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You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More.
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Dirt streaks on cars—a result of living on prestigious unpaved roads—are a status symbol.
Homes by Horseback
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The track we were on, unpaved and without gravel or metalling, was nonetheless flat and wide enough for a cart, and largely free of stones — which was enough to make it noteworthy — and of bracken, which made it visible against the brown hillside.
The Moor
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As indicated, the only data reported for these roads is whether they are paved or unpaved.
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Nora Willman stood at the corner of the small, unpaved street, her basket of fresh fruits and vegetables swinging carelessly in her left hand.
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Dingy wooden buildings are piled together haphazardly, rising three stories and hanging over the unpaved mud street, if you insist on calling it that.
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Usually the village was a line of unpainted wooden huts along each side of a main street that was unpaved and undrained.
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Almost exactly three klicks after that, Howard found the second intersection, marked by a sign, and turned north onto a rutted, unpaved road.
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Vincent climbed down the rusty fire escape ladder and leapt down to the unpaved cobblestone street below.
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Moldova: total: 20,000 km paved: 13,900 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) unpaved: 6,100 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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Multi-leg landing gear and loading equipment ensure self-sufficient operation of the aircraft on prepared concrete runways and on unpaved strips.
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Matheran Station lies at the start of the single, unpaved, main street of the hamlet.
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Hannover was a small town where cattle wandered down the unpaved streets, and there was not so much as a single coffee shop in which to pass the hours in intelligent conversation.
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Highways: total: 22,000 km paved: 18,000 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) unpaved: 4,000 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1996)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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Many of the pastel-painted adobe shops and homes along the unpaved main street had bullet, mortar, or artillery shell holes and were roofless.
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I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.”
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
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At the bottom of the hill where the streetlights ended and the unpaved track vanished among the trees it was pitch black.
LOST SUMMER
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Usually the village was a line of unpainted wooden huts along each side of a main street that was unpaved and undrained.
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It is a bleak wintry scene as an SUV makes its way down an unpaved road to a rural village.
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She came from the provincial town of Ivanovo in central Russia, where chickens lived in the kitchen and a pig squatted under the stairs, where streets were unpaved and houses made from wood.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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He watches warily as a young man in dusty boots walks down the unpaved street, pushing a flat cart carrying bright yellow plastic chairs, chickens, and a little girl.
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unpaved rural roads
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Their home is one of an isolated clutch of doleful, boxy structures, their alimentary needs met by a tiny storefront shop, their streets unlit, even unpaved.
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The houses were made of stone and iron and a lot of the streets were unpaved with stones all over the place.
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Tanzania has adjusted its plans and the road through the park will now be unpaved, with game rangers controlling traffic with gates in a bid to avoid disturbing the annual migration of wildebeest.
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The studded tires got some good testing on the iced over unpaved roads and performed well.
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Anybody got any better quotes or other news from the streets (and unpaved roads)?
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While her parents shopped, Kate can remember sitting outside with Johnny and Alice, their feet in the gutter of the unpaved street.
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a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley
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He followed Creed's directions, leaving the road for an unpaved track that seemed to lead towards the ocean.
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One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur M.
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Nassau, the capital on New Providence and the only real town, was a modest settlement of lightly built wooden houses clustered around a single unpaved street.
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In suburban Bedford, N.Y., where the privacy of an unpaved road is mark of prestige, the best way to gawk at the homes of the rich and famous is on horseback.
Homes by Horseback
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Kazakhstan: total: NA km paved: 150,000 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) (2000) unpaved: NA km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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The district is a run-down clump of ugly apartment blocks and unpaved streets.
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My GPS tells me exactly where to turn and when and I love her and I am so heartily sorry for all the times I've suspected that she's trying to leave me for dead on an unpaved road in cannibal territory.
What I did on the weekend -- Part 2: How do you say "Curse you, Mapquest!" in French?
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Carlos and his five brothers and sisters grew up in a tiny village in northern Mexico, Autlan de Navarro, where the streets were unpaved and chickens ran riot.
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Unpaved roads, the great majority, could become quagmires with the passage of the first few vehicles.
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We can distinguish between paved runway and unpaved areas.
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Their landing gear gouged huge gashes into the unpaved surface.
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The zoning permitted streets to be left unpaved.
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At the bottom of the hill Back Lane ended in an unpaved bridle track that vanished among tall trees.
LOST SUMMER
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Highways: total: 29,900 km paved: 21,400 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) unpaved: 8,500 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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She crossed the High Street, still feeling as if she were being watched, and found the unpaved lane that led east to the North Sea.
AFTERMATH
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The boys crossed North Avenue and continued walking until they came to a short dirt road, the only unpaved street left in the entire city.
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Highways: total: 20,000 km paved: 13,900 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) unpaved: 6,100 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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The 130,000 people in Chincha Alta live in a world of unpaved streets, windowless huts and open sewers.
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
The Waverley
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There are more hotels than schools here," I was told last week during a lightning visit to Juba as we bumped along the city's unpaved roads, where 4x4s weave like dodgem cars to avoid pot holes filled with rainwater.
South Sudan's capital idea | Mark Tran
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I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.”
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
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He and his training partner readily accommodate me and my reporter's notebook, although, to be honest, they'd rather do these repeats on an unpaved trail that didn't shred their quads on the downhills.
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My newly planted lichee, fig, and olive thank the rain gods, and so do I. Tomorrow we'll see the road damage, bound to be severe .... the unpaved roads, I mean.
Rain
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Beware of what appear to be shortcuts on maps - these often turn out to be unpaved roads or mountain passes.
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The unpaved roads into Avante are so rough, the local police use sure-footed horses on their patrols.
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Toward the center of the island, well apart from each other on higher ground partially hidden by brush and trees, I could see a couple of frame houses, one of them in tumbledown condition; unpaved access roads led up to each property, and at the foot of each drive was a mailbox with a name lettered on it.
Hoodwink
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[The street] was unpaved; and down the middle a gutter forced its way, every now and then forming pools in the holes with which the street abounded.
