Cul-de-sac

//ˈkʌldəsæk//

"Cul-de-sac" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Sami was in a cul-de-sac.

Sami lived in a cul-de-sac.

Sami and Layla lived in a cul-de-sac.

Sami went all the way down to the bottom of the cul-de-sac.

Mennad went in the cul-de-sac.

Mennad lives in a cul-de-sac.

My life is a cul-de-sac.

There is a cul-de-sac at the end of the road.

Ziri's street is a cul-de-sac.

At my age ten and on my introduction to North America from the Philippines, my family first rented a ground floor suite at a cul-de-sac, where there was also a house with three Filipino children. They introduced me to eating cherries.

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Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them. It was a watery cul de sac.

His was the end house of a cul-de-sac, with the side wall of a huge brewery beyond.

And in suburbs known for new development, preservationists are often battling a general perception that there is nothing historic or worth saving among the cul-de-sacs.

Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.

The internet is a remarkable tool to find others and coordinate, but as an end to itself can become a cul de sac of frustrated desires and circular arguments.

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