rutty
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- ruttily adverb
- ruttiness noun
Etymology
Origin of rutty
Example Sentences
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The tests are meant to simulate real world scenarios — from hurtling toward a target to being carted in an Air Force truck over a long, rutty road.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023
To avoid turning an ankle on a rutty path, he told her to use the team’s facilities.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021
Over a windy English heath and down a hill crept a rutty road.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over mountains, down dales, through spreading forests and along hard rutty roads trudged hundreds of Rumanian peasants and then thousands, last week, to the old Transylvania walled town of Alba Julia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rutty road had not changed except that the ruts were deeper and the round stones stuck up higher.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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