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
As a viewer begins to realize, these blind alleys, pun intended, are going to lead nowhere.
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
In many cases, the threat of costly legal action can silence critics, leaving the scientific record uncorrected, which risks other researchers wasting funding by chasing down blind alleys.
From Science Magazine
The lessons gleaned from "End Times" could help redirect us away from blind alleys as we seek to find our way through the challenges confronting us in the turbulent 2020s.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
