dead end

Example Sentences

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If the supply of schools doesn’t keep pace, tens of thousands of families will face the same dead end Florida families did—scholarships in hand but nowhere to spend them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The fact that Vance and his team weren’t ready even to stay over one night suggests either that they were very naive or that they knew the trip was a dead end.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 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

Sometimes, the best place you can go is a dead end.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

This saved the Soviets from going down the same dead end as Oppenheimer’s team.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin