unmetalled
- a word derived from metal.
Example Sentences
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Communications moved slowly along unmetalled roads or up and down rivers.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
We ran across bare hills on an unmetalled road under a burning sun in front of a volley of playful repartee from the prominent citizens inside.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
Him we followed into the hills along a road cut into the crumbling volcanic rock and entirely unmetalled.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
The broad, dusty, unmetalled roads are steeped in sunshine.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)
The road from this being "Kucha," literally UNCOOKED, but here meant to express "unmetalled," we had yet another form of conveyance to make acquaintance with.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by Knight, William Henry