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’m in a blind alley now, and that’s all there is to it.”
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
