corduroy road
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road.
From Time Magazine Archive
What you didn't mention is that the remainder of our highways have acquired the not so complimentary name of "Craig's corduroy road system" .
From Time Magazine Archive
Now down the corduroy road from the high ground and the village padded the stooped and broken father of a boy of this age.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Do you know where this corduroy road leads?"
From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth)
He set large forces of his men at work upon the road, paving it in the worst places with logs, making what is called in the South a corduroy road of it.
From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by Eggleston, George Cary
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