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cul-de-sac

[kuhl-duh-sak, -sak, kool-, kyduh-sak] / ˈkʌl dəˈsæk, -ˌsæk, ˈkʊl-, küdəˈsak /
NOUN
street closed at one end
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She added that she was concerned that the elderly residents of the cul-de-sac, who were in bed when the flood hit last night, would not be able to leave their homes.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The crash happened at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac of detached homes.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Dharmesh Patel was a respected radiologist who appeared to live an idyllic family life in a peaceful Pasadena cul-de-sac.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

Then I notice a strange car parked on the Mumford cul-de-sac.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

You haven’t seen how, at every step in creating, tooling and staffing a factory, Astra might be stymied into cul-de-sacs that a human helper would repeatedly have to steer it out of.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Torreyson is one of the most exclusive cul-de-sacs in the Hollywood Hills, surrounded by historically significant architecture, including a neighboring Richard Neutra residence, with several notable figures calling the area home.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

He may have named the cul-de-sacs for his daughter, Helena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

The guests began to arrive, many with tales of how they'd gotten lost on the way; the suburbs were dark and intricate like mazes with their courts and cul-de-sacs.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

That Elizabeth Madox Roberts was lost in one of these treacherous literary culs-de-sac became painfully clear to most critics three years ago, when she published her obscure, mystical novel, He Sent Forth a Raven.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boys went through the neighborhood, venturing deep into culs-de-sac and up dark sidewalks to houses that many other kids avoided.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John




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