blind alley
Example Sentences
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Once outside, we catch a glimpse of tapping heels ducking down a blind alley and it looks like the back of our crowd.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
They wandered down one blind alley after another.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2022
“Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2021
Feynman warns in The Character of Physical Law, “because you will get ‘down the drain,’ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped.
From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2021
Sometimes they are victims of professional narcissism and write as if the reader were interested in every blind alley, fool’s errand, and wild-goose chase they engaged in while exploring the topic.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
