dead end

Example Sentences

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Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The remains of these invisible dead end up in Dolores Cemetery, Mexico's largest, situated in Chapultepec Forest.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

There is no dead end that isn’t obscuring some secret hatch or hidden door revealed by doing his own research.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025

"The negotiation with the United States is in fact a pure dead end," Aragchi added.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

With each dead end, I felt an escalating fear.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson