Blind alley

"Blind alley" in a Sentence (2 examples)

[Raheem] Sterling was grateful that a glaring miss from [Jesse] Lingard's pass was rescued by a linesman's flag against the Manchester United midfielder, but he almost tried too hard as the game progressed and was running up blind alleys before he was replaced by Marcus Rashford after 68 minutes.

"We looked into lots of blind alleys for re-engineering our fleet. […]."

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