Noun : to fall into a rut.    From Dictionary.com. 

I drove 75 miles through 6 to 8 inches of unplowed snow - the kind of rutted snow that can throw you into a skid very quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference

He stared at the rutted road and scanned the hedgerows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

The lane, rutted and ill used, surely led somewhere ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexy Beast IV]

The road, rutted deep by the heavy wagons, curled southward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebel Spurs] Reference

He'd traveled eight slow miles down the rutted, red, clay road.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference

It was nothing but a deeply rutted track thick with sand and loose stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference

The road was dark, deeply rutted and narrow, and crossed by a little stream.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference

His is a stately, chauffeured progress, though frequently upon rutted roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul] Reference

The streets were deeply rutted in snow and the traffic was almost stationary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

Several jagged rocks jut from the rutted dirt track at the bottom of the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [California 200 Crash: Video Shows Dangers Of Off-Road Race] Reference

They're big and hard to kill, so when they want to rut, most people get rutted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

"Primrose Meadows," and drove through them into what soon became a rutted lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder at Bridge] Reference

Through the gateway of the compound she saw a rutted road, with dun fields beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference

DORNIN: It's at least six miles from where we are over winding and rutted dirt roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2006] Reference

Compared to wooden wheels bouncing on a rutted road, this ride was wonderfully smooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

He pointed across the street, to the rutted outdoor lots used by nurses and orderlies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

Beware of the Dog, Mr. Campion halted the car at the intersection of four rutted roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cargo of Eagles]

We take our rutted thoughts, our predispositions, our cultural concepts wherever we go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memory of Mars] Reference

High street itself was rutted and muddy all through the early spring, after the snow had gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

And discovered that some distance in his rear a small party was proceeding along the rutted track.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

It was rutted by the wheels of heavy traffic, but with tires in the dusty ruts a car ran unimpeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

At a mailbox hand-painted with the house number of her delivery, she turned onto a rutted dirt path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuning Pegs] Reference

McCARTHY: Last week, the school principal with an ashen face took a motorcycle over a road so badly rutted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Massive Flooding, Stewing Resentment In Pakistan] Reference

She turns onto a rutted road made for four-wheel-drive vehicles, and leads me into the bowl of a small canyon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

We traveled for miles along a narrow, rutted road crossed now and then by dim trails leading nowhere, it seemed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

It seemed to her that her son, from a very early age, was intent to do great things, to rise from the rutted roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [On His Own] Reference

He turned his back and took several paces not without dignity, for he was limping and the rutted clay was unyielding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cargo of Eagles]

Back on the muddy and rutted roads with Ibama, agents continue to comb the forest for anything that looks out of place.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009] Reference

The cottage was on a rutted red dirt road (still plenty of those up there, for all of you "Anne of Green Gables" fans).    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Robinson: Is the Grass Greener in Canada?] Reference

He still gets his hands dirty, loading his pickup truck and driving over Ghana's rutted, unsealed roads to sell his stoves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Carbon into Cash] Reference

Coming to a narrow, cart-rutted lane a little further on, I was just starting to go up it when, suddenly, a bright idea struck me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets & Billets] Reference

It took rescue vehicles and helicopters more than half an hour to reach the remote location, accessible only by a rutted dirt road.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Off-Road Race Crash: Truck Plows Into Crowd, Kills 8, Injures 12] Reference

I followed at as fast a clip as I could manage, considering the luggage and Hythe Bridge Street, which was unpaved and badly rutted.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

It is Sunday morning in Agbor, a remote village in southwest Nigeria, where chickens peck at rutted roads and bicycles outnumber cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Changing Face Of The Church] Reference

The Balkan war has ravaged Sarajevo's Olympic Stadium, and the field on which opening ceremonies were held has become a rutted cemetery.    From Wordnik.com.  ['To Finish On A High.'] Reference

They look out over a vista of rock walls, green scrub and a rutted track where shepherds sometimes drive their herds of fat-tailed sheep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing A Long, Cold War] Reference