dead-end street
Example Sentences
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The pursuit ended on a dead-end street, which remained closed off to the public for several hours.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024
When Ms. Inglés used to tell people where she lived — on a dead-end street in Las Margaritas — they would gasp.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2023
It was a dead-end street, near the outskirts of town; modest ranch houses and manicured lawns, surrounded by scrubby grasslands, junk cars and railroad tracks.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2023
The white sedan cruised past the gray, three-story rental home on a dead-end street in Moscow, Idaho.
From Washington Times • Jan. 6, 2023
On the other side of the dead-end street was a line of little ramshackle houses, their windows boarded up like black eyes.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
