Example Sentences

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Just 2km from the market, a signboard points to the untarred road that goes up to Baisaran, a 5km trek covered on foot or ponies.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Patients who had already travelled hours from remote areas to get to the hospital had to make another long journey on bumpy, untarred roads to get treatment.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2022

The road was a joke, wall-less and untarred.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

Panetta is certainly untarred in that respect, but in order to have a chance to manage the country's intelligence-gathering apparatus, he'll have to get through a potentially difficult confirmation process to be headed by Feinstein.

From Time Magazine Archive

I laughed because Nsukka s untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie