cul-de-sac
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The annual block party on his own cul-de-sac never came back after Covid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Pristine, completely remodeled, two-story warm Contemporary done with great taste and quality at the end of a quiet, flat cul-de-sac street in a desirable Brentwood Hills location,” the description begins.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
For Monroe it only led to one more cul-de-sac.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
It had been a routine day doing ground work for a cul-de-sac in a quiet part of central Nottinghamshire in March 1966, with builders and machine operators looking forward to going home.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Tucker passed Miles’s street and went two more, to a cul-de-sac where rainbows and unicorns came to die.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
With its shopping centers and cul-de-sacs carved into Joshua tree woodlands, Yucca Valley is probably the developed community most profoundly affected by the conservation law, said town manager Curtis Yakimow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
Your relative might lose his train of thought; another person’s relative might get stuck in verbal cul-de-sacs of nonsense.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2024
Mr. Biden spoke quickly and precisely, without entering the verbal cul-de-sacs endemic to many of his presidential speeches 28 years later.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Still, he thinks many future pros logged more time playing street hockey in driveways and cul-de-sacs during their formative years.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
In easternmost Siasconset, the gray-shingled fishermen’s cottages that occupied the corners of plots of sea grass and wildflowers are giving way to mansions in private cul-de-sacs.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Today, too many American children cannot safely leave their culs-de-sac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Better, then, to make shows for television, a medium that is more comfortable with loose ends and narrative culs-de-sac, where he can tell a “continuing story”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2018
Martz saw FlexBus as the key to transforming Altamonte, a loose agglomeration of palm tree-lined strip malls and culs-de-sac a few miles north of Orlando, into a thriving and walkable destination.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2016
In retirement communities and suburban culs-de-sac, battery-powered carts are a cheap, energy-efficient way to move around the neighborhood.
From Time Magazine Archive
They drive until it grows dark, without destination in mind, past hidden ponds and graveyards, culs-de-sac and dead ends.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
