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
None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
