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dead-end street



NOUN
cul-de-sac
Synonyms


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Their home is a sprawling compound down a dingy dead-end street in Voluntari, a town next to Bucharest that is dotted with shiny new office towers and derelict empty lots.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

A white sedan allegedly matching one owned by Kohberger was caught on surveillance footage repeatedly cruising past the rental home on a dead-end street around the time of the killings.

From Washington Times • May 18, 2023

It was a dead-end street, near the outskirts of town; modest ranch houses and manicured lawns, surrounded by scrubby grasslands, junk cars and railroad tracks.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2023

Gendron’s parents’ home sits on a dead-end street across from the meandering Carlin Creek.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2022

On the other side of the dead-end street was a line of little ramshackle houses, their windows boarded up like black eyes.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken