Use "ruts" in a sentence

1. There were a few wagon ruts going this way, but at half the washes they had to have the kedas dig to make ramps for the wheels

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2. Looking down, Tom could see many ruts and tracks in the ground,

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3. He could also see the ruts worn in the

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4. tracks and paths, all deeply rutted, with dry gravel in the ruts and long

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5. He manages to edge the car onto the hard packed ruts of a field entrance and, bending forward, he rests his head on the soft plastic of the steering wheel

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6. having been neglected, ruts ran across the roads like

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7. ruts where they eat too much of one type of food

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8. They both tried to run, but neither could move in any more than stuttering steps over the ruts and gullies

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9. We moved slowly as I struggled over rocks and through ruts toward the small village in the hill country of Judah

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10. Owing to the unaccountable delay in road-making during the dry days and the subsequent employment of improper measures in repairing washouts and ruts with brushwood and sand, to withstand the periodic downpours, even the light mortars could not be brought to the front before July 9th, and not one of the siege guns was landed

11. Turning his bike on to his road, Frank fought the deep ruts that had formed in the recent heavy rain, his hands locked on the handlebars as he kept the big machine on a straight track

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12. He knew now that he’d been completely wrong: Sylvia felt no mother-son solidarity with him – never had! It was time to strike out on his own and getting his hands on that coke was the answer! There’d be money enough to be free of her forever! He tromped down on the accelerator of the La Hacienda 4X4 firing a spray of gravel behind as he followed the switchbacks and ruts then, with a squeal, the tires found pavement and he roared off towards San José

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13. danger of digging the ruts of the calling so deep that

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14. Ingrid gripped the dash board, bouncing up and down as LP's four wheel drive hit ruts in the sand tracks

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15. A much wider path, clearly distinguishable as a road with wheel ruts on either side, led out of the clearing

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16. The wagon bumped and jolted over the ruts in the road, and Maggie sighed with contentment as she leaned against the wall

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17. There were no stairs, only ruts carved into the stone to make footholds and handholds

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18. extent along their accustomed ruts

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19. Gomes turned the Ford into the ruts and switched to four wheel drive

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20. Onto a dirt road that had seen some usage by the deep wagon ruts the horses stumbled over

21. Samson Duff downshifted the four speed 4x4 to second gear as the narrow, potholed blacktop rudely turned into two dirt ruts

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22. Though dark, the quiet man had little trouble staying parallel to the ruts, occasionally detouring around a ditch or pond

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23. The main ruts turned north along a fence line so the light must be the end of the road going south and had to be Joe Billie‘s place

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24. With lift provided by the steering jets on the rental ship’s under side, the cargo ship ran up the rental’s engines enough to free it from the ruts it had dug in the grass

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25. They could barely make out the remains of the corrals where they had kept their horses, but the deep ruts left by the PI ships, Buddy and Daisy, could still plainly be seen where they had rolled in from the lake

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26. The burns were red and raw with splinters of rope sticking out like needles from the deep ugly ruts

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27. Henry stopped just as the ruts in the driveway veered in either direction, surrounding the house with the rocky dirt path

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28. and seemed to float along with the merest hint of the ruts

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29. Help them rise above their ruts in life by being as

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30. We find a way out of the ruts that humans are

31. He lumbered off down the worn ruts in the grass on a

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32. “Let’s get this over with,” he said as he hobbled off down the worn ruts in the side of the hill

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33. “It’s growing in those ruts

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34. “I’m gonna get a shovel, dig it up, and fill in these ruts,” Rob said as he set out for the garage

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35. He dropped to his knees and began tossing clods of dirt into the ruts

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36. thirty, maybe forty? It was a large camp, with a mass of horse hooves and wheel ruts left in the soil

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37. ruts, most of the vehicles were far larger than ours

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38. Slush and snow filled the ruts in the

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39. again as the movie showed Karl driving his old truck down the ruts,

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40. The path was surrounded by tall grass and the ruts were filled with

41. The road had ruts in them from the semi-trucks

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42. Yes, sir, I regard you as an ordinary Philistine; and if you want to know what that in my opinion is, it is one who walks along in the ruts he found ready instead of, after sitting on a milestone and taking due thought, making his own ruts for himself

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43. You see the place far away in the distance the whole time, and you jolt on and on at a walking pace towards it, in and out of ruts, over grass-mounds, the sun beating on your head, sea on your left rolling up the beach in long waves, more sea on your right across the undulating greenness, a distant hill with a village by the water to the west, sails of fisher-boats, people in a curious costume mowing in a meadow a great way off, and tethered all over the plain solitary sheep and cows, whose nervousness at your approach is the nervousness begotten of a retired life

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44. There were no trees, but so many flowers that even the ruts were blue with chickory

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45. His eyes were fixed on the page and his forehead was smooth and unwrinkled though there were two little ruts between his eyebrows

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46. None of the Olsens spoke as Glorth turned the wagon onto the road north to the Michaud farm and then let the horse find its own path and pace over the solid icy ruts

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47. Without the trailer, it was easier moving over the bumps, ruts and sand

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48. deep ruts in the ski-racing courses

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49. stuck in the same ruts that you find yourself in now

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50. driving, trying to miss the holes and ruts that early

51. Because of the ruts

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52. road with my shovel, knocking the ridges into the ruts and piling

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53. By the city's quadrangular houses--in log huts, camping with lumber-men, Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed, Weeding my onion-patch or hosing rows of carrots and parsnips,

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54. All sorts of joyous sounds filled the air; the jolting of a cart rolling afar off in the ruts, the crowing of a cock, repeated again and again, or the gambling of a foal running away under the apple-trees: The pure sky was fretted with rosy clouds; a bluish haze rested upon the cots covered with iris

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55. She knew by the sun that she was heading east, and she thought, judging by the deep cartwheel ruts in the baked mud, that she was on the main road

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56. The shaft-horses were tilted against the shafts by the ruts, but the dexterous driver sitting on the box held the shaft over the ruts, so that the wheels ran on the smooth part of the road

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57. On the ancient pavement, laid out in patterns, sunk into ruts and holes, the portly Ignacio, mindful of the springs of the Parisian-built landau, had pulled up to a walk, and Decoud in his corner contemplated moodily the inner aspect of the gate

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58. ‘Well, you are slow!’ the counting house clerk shouted angrily to the peasant who was stepping slowly with his bare feet over the ruts of the rough dry road

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59. wallow, and here and there vehicles were mired to the hubs in the ruts

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60. Cannon rolled past, the drivers flaying the through the ruts

61. It all came back to her now, the nightmare journey after Rhett’s footsteps died away, the endless night, the black road full of ruts and boulders along which they jolted, the deep gullies on either side into which the wagon slipped, the fear-crazed strength with which she and Prissy had pushed the wheels out of the gullies

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62. All day! She looked down the glaring red road, cut in deep ruts where cannon wheels and ambulances had gone over it

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63. The machine was a beautiful silvery blue, with pneumatic tires to smooth out the bumps and ruts of Eudora’s dirt streets

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64. All of them were stuck in their daily ruts and daily rutting

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65. There weren’t even wheel ruts in the crusted-over dirt

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66. In the midst of the outspread line of Cossacks two wagons, drawn by French horses and by saddled Cossack horses that had been hitched on in front, rumbled over the tree stumps and branches and splashed through the water that lay in the ruts

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67. The saturated road no longer absorbed the water, which ran along the ruts in streams

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68. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the

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69. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of Papelotte would have been impossible

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70. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons

71. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty

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72. Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as on terra firma, by the passage of the sleds over the same track, and the horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed out like buckets

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73. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains

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74. The ruts of his own fatherland

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75. The coach is borne o'er ruts and holes,

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76. All day and every day one might hear the sound of dead men’s bones crunching beneath the feet of horses and the wheels of the wagons, as they were crushed into the ruts

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77. In the night snow had fallen, and when Iván Petróvich had driven to church the snow had not yet disappeared, but was soft; now, though there was no sun, it was all melted from the moisture, and on the highway, on which he had to travel for three versts before turning into Chirakóvo, the snow was white only in last year's grass, which grew in parallel lines along the ruts; but on the black road the horses splashed through the viscous mud

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78. The road, which was cut up by deep ruts, lay through a thick pine forest, mingled with birch trees and larches, bright with yellow leaves they had not yet shed

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79. And here, too, he did not follow the ruts of a Caucasian officer's life

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80. Everyone was moving on quietly and calmly in dead level ruts save Cecil Lindley

81. We crossed a rickety old wooden bridge that had been nearly washed away by the floods, and commenced to climb the mountain side by a road that was nearly as steep as a steeple and which wended around to nearly every point of the compass, ever going up, over ruts and rocks, roots and trunks of trees, now jumping across a ravine, and next climbing a fence

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82. We were settled down into them, as ruts; and, no matter how slow or hard or fruitless our movements along the old line, it seemed impossible to see what else to do, or how we could strike out into new paths, or plan any material change in the ordering of our campaign

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