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
They wandered down one blind alley after another.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2022
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
