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
“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
The indisputable physical fact of the body turns out to be a blind alley, a mask that obscures as much as it reveals about its identity: names, memories, experiences, epiphanies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2020
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
