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

Davies said he was just asking people's views, but his predecessor Lord Bourne warned the party against going down a "blind alley".

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

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

I could see what was going to happen, and I wanted to reach down and take him out before he ended up in a blind alley.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes