blind alley
Example Sentences
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Once outside, we catch a glimpse of tapping heels ducking down a blind alley and it looks like the back of our crowd.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Davies said he was just asking people's views, but his predecessor Lord Bourne warned the party against going down a "blind alley".
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
“Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2021
Feynman warns in The Character of Physical Law, “because you will get ‘down the drain,’ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped.
From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2021
A strong counter-emotion waxed in him, urging him, warning him to leave this newly-seen and newly-felt thing alone, that it would lead him to but another blind alley, to deeper hate and shame.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
