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• The route was used so much that it formed a rut.From the entry route
• Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut.2021, Redferrin, "Stuck". From the entry cut
• The annex still stood, and from inside came the grunting sounds of Eskimos and GIs in rut.2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland. From the entry popper
• As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel.1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 66. From the entry reg
• We squished down a rutted lane, side-stepped a herd of cows, and eventually found an explanatory plaque.1961, Muriel Beadle, chapter 4, in These Ruins Are Inhabited, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50. From the entry squish
• The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC. From the entry buffalo robe
• The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 128]. From the entry scabious
• The rutting male protrudes the dulla from its mouth.2023 August 31, Masroor Ellahi Babar, Muhammad Ashraf, Biology and Breeding of Camels: Focus on Pakistan Camels, CRC Press, →ISBN. From the entry dulla
• I stared down at the rutted wood of the table.2014, Laura Welling, Talent to Burn, Samhain Publishing, unnumbered page. From the entry 4eva
• “Rut roh,” commented Trent as Jason sat up straighter.2003, Emily Drake, The Curse of Arkady, Penguin, page 139. From the entry rut roh
• Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 128. From the entry bell
• Desserts have fallen into a rut.2006 December 27, Alison Arnett, “Five on 5: A quintet of critics picks a year’s worth of favorites”, in The Boston Globe, volume 270…. From the entry molten-chocolate cake
• When pavement repairs were made, they were usually effected by filling holes and ruts with brush, branches, and other rottable organic material.1998, Maxwell G. Lay, Handbook of Road Technology: Planning and pavements. From the entry rottable
• The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 284. From the entry blench
• The street paving was badly worn, but looked marvelously smooth and kempt to Winterbourne, accustomed to roads worn into deep ruts and reft with shell-holes.1929 July, Richard Aldington, chapter XII, in Death of a Hero […], New York, N.Y.: Covici-Friede, published October 1929, →OCLC, part 3…. From the entry kempt
• Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry quarrons
• It is arranged so that if one wheel drops into a hole or rut, there's no strain or binding on the frame.1912 February 7, “How to Save the Most Money on a Spreader [advertisement]”, in The Breeder’s Gazette, volume LXI, number 6, Chicago…. From the entry fifth wheel
• As I jump in, he spins out and takes off up the road in the direction the plane came from, bouncing dangerously over washboards and ruts.2009, Chinle Miller, Desert Rats: Adventures in the American Outback, page 35. From the entry washboard
• It was as much as part of her days as stale bread and the blisters on her toes after a long day of walking the hard, rutted road.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 413. From the entry rutted
• Tracks and roads were at first rough and rutted, and quickly became quagmires in the rainy seasons before being surfaced first with "murram" gravel, later with tarmac.1991, Donald B. Freeman, A City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN…. From the entry murram
• I get that they make the bag easier to maneuver on airport floors, but I can’t see them bouncing along rutted sidewalks very smoothly, at least in their low-end versions.2014 April 16, Seth Kugel, “Hunting for the Best Carry-On Bag”, NYTimes.com. From the entry spinner wheel
• The only reliever who has yet to drive into a rut is the 28-year-old rookie Peter Moylan, a submarining right-hander from Australia with swirling tattoos on his thick right arm.2007 August 6, Ray Glier, “Braves Feel Good About New Faces, and So Do Fans”, in New York Times. From the entry submarining

Meaning of rut

1. noun Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season; the state or season in which this is experienced.
2. noun The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
3. noun Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

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How do you use rut in a sentence?

Rut is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.”

What is a short sentence with rut?

“Desserts have fallen into a rut.”

What does rut mean?

Rut means sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season; the state or season in which this is experienced.