cul-de-sac

Example Sentences

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For Monroe it only led to one more cul-de-sac.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

His mother ran a licensed daycare out of their home, a $1.24 million five-bedroom house on a leafy cul-de-sac.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

It had been a routine day doing ground work for a cul-de-sac in a quiet part of central Nottinghamshire in March 1966, with builders and machine operators looking forward to going home.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

But amid blizzards, subzero winds, outrageous acts of state terror and every other despair lurking in The Big Dark, it’s a readily accessible, harmonious cul-de-sac in an era of rampant tone deafness.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Tucker passed Miles’s street and went two more, to a cul-de-sac where rainbows and unicorns came to die.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia