leading nowhere
Example Sentences
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The days of being told you just need a spot on “The Tonight Show” are gone, and with myriad platforms, there appear to be many roads, most leading nowhere.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
"The issue of jail informants in the Wozniak case, in the court's view, is a dead-end road leading nowhere," Conley said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
Where once sat antebellum mansions now sit clipped green lawns with magnolia trees and moss-draped live oaks, concrete slab foundations and grand brick steps leading nowhere.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2015
They won’t be returning to the place where Dewar spent twenty years living the good life: parts of Fukushima have become ghost towns, with strewn rubble, collapsed store fronts, and abandoned roads leading nowhere.
From Salon ● May 28, 2013
They had dug another hole, most likely, she thought, just a dummy, leading nowhere.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
