How to Use dead-end in a Sentence

dead-end

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Many of those victims were found on Boes’ dead-end street.
    — Emily Lippiello, ABC News, 9 May 2024
  • There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for it, because this is a little dead-end street that goes to the ocean.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • The two bodies were discovered this year in front of the last house on a dead-end road in Columbus, Georgia.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 20 June 2023
  • Millions find themselves in this predicament, left to settle for a dead-end job or worse.
    — Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Yet such an exchange might turn the Gaza war away from its catastrophic, dead-end course, at least for a time.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • After waiting for the car to make it safely through the zone, the sergeant attempted to pull over the driver, who pulled onto a dead-end street.
    — Thallman, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
  • Wasting time on dead-end projects won’t satisfy your soul.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Our own home is located on a dead-end street with only six houses.
    — Liz Logan, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The post by the Humane Society said that late Wednesday night, three 8-week-old pointer/hound mix puppies were thrown from a car to the side of a dead-end road.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the film, Perry plays Mike O’Donnell, a down-on-his-luck middle-aged father with a dead-end job, two kids who hate him and a wife who has just filed for divorce.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Her family loves their dead-end street and the easy commute into Boston, but the home was small, with low-slung 7-foot ceilings.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • That sound continues on Grog, where Frog sing stories of dead-end detectives and fateful love that give your heart a soft punch.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
  • If this weren’t sad enough, the clanging piano chords—loping around in circular motion—taunt her dead-end state.
    — Joshua Minsoo Kim, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The rest just dead-end in mid-air, with treacherous drop-offs that could cause serious injury — or worse — should anyone fall from them.
    — By wayne Parry, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Feeling trapped in her dead-end existence, Hazel longs for wider horizons, different people and places — in short, a change.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • But the well-versed knew about the 3051 Rosslyn St. showroom, hidden off a dead-end street across from a cemetery, open Fridays and periodic weekends.
    — Ariel Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Hannah is a 30-something single woman who's feeling adrift and bitter in both her personal life and in her dead-end job.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Newbern’s residents live mostly in single-story homes on dead-end streets off State Route 61.
    — Meridith Edwards, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In the new show, Fionna lives with her cat, Cake, working dead-end jobs in a world without magic until the pair is flung through the multiverse, pursued by a powerful foe.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc was a name thrown around as a possible contender, but that was a dead-end, too.
    — Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, Howarth explained his exit, noting that his contract was up and the character had reached a creative dead-end.
    — EW.com, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end arguments and legislative gridlock.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Secluded atop a high knoll on a dead-end street in the Studio City hills, the very private home is additionally cloaked from public view behind high gates, towering walls and overgrown hedges.
    — James McClain, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In 2016, investment bank and wealth manager Stifel purchased Eaton, and his new employer dispatched the youngster on what appeared a dead-end assignment.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 July 2023
  • Cincinnati’s King Records is a place where rock history, civil rights history and Cincinnati history intersect at the corner of a dead-end street just north of Downtown.
    — The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Though there’s no proof that this actually happened, the isolated, dead-end road definitely makes an eerie setting.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In a dead-end section of the mine illuminated only by the cold flicker of a fizzing neon sign, old man Berdo (Levan Berikashvili) ekes out a meager existence, muttering to the ghost of his son who died ten years prior in a mine collapse.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • That’s in part because, for generations, many Egyptians discouraged their children from pursuing work as chefs, viewing kitchen jobs as a step toward a dead-end career.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Each dead-end eruption of violence has put paid to the notion of a military solution; reconciliation is the only path forward.
    — Ziad Asali, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • His days consist of nude swims in his pool, dead-end flirtations with a local club owner (Louise Bourgoin), spats with his disapproving housekeeper (Clotilde Mollet) and halfhearted attempts to quit smoking.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
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dead end

2 of 2 noun
  • We came to a dead end and had to turn around.
  • My career has hit a dead end.
  • The first stop on the road back to the Final Four looked like a dead end.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • And if taking that left fork in the road is a dead end?
    — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Each time someone has tried to crack the code, it's led to a dead end.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • What makes sense for one might be a dead end for the other.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
  • Though, just days ago, Putin said talks were at a dead end.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
  • There were about two dozen of us who had landed in the same dead end.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2021
  • The calls were dead ends, and Josiah came to loathe making them.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Projects like these are a rabbit hole as well as a dead end.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The victim drove first north on Canal Drive, only to find a dead end and then turned around.
    — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The boardwalk extends for a few hundred yards to a dead end.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But the researchers behind the recent work don’t see TDA as a dead end.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The fourth, tucked away in a dusty dead end, is only as big as four ping-pong tables.
    — Wired, 29 July 2022
  • This all might seem to make exploring Venus a dead end.
    — Chris Wright, Wired, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Don’t let your temper cause this bright new path to turn into a dead end.
    — Essence, 17 Jan. 2023
  • That portends a long and windy road to clean energy, not a dead end.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There was only the dead end of the commune, or the default of the corporation.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
  • The prospects of self-regulation as a pathway out of this mess are a dead end.
    — Rob Reich, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Because the street is a dead end, the Pinehurst Court cul-de-sac never saw many trick-or-treaters.
    — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2021
  • On the one hand, the AM4 socket is effectively a dead end.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Makris had also looked into adoption and hit the same dead end.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Loyalty is a two way street, and the road to my money just became a dead end for you.
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Both of these deplorable leaders have led their peoples to a dead end.
    — Kai Bird, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
  • No Time to Die (series sequel 24) proves that the decades-old James Bond franchise has reached a dead end.
    — Armond White, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
  • LaFleur is currently in the running to have a dead end named after him.
    — Mike Hart, Journal Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2022
  • While the criminal charges have hit a dead end, the civil suits remain.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 11 Mar. 2022
  • However, despite their efforts, many of the clues and leads led to dead ends.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • Some of them dead end, some of them turn into something great, some of them don’t do either.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • When Casey inquired about bringing them back to Chicago, that was a dead end.
    — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021

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