How to Use dead-end in a Sentence

dead-end

1 of 3 adjective

• 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 3 verb

• On a chilly night near downtown Los Angeles, a car maneuvers down a dark dead-end street.
  — Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the face of this dire situation, battery swapping is a distraction and dead-end that the planet can’t afford.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2021
• On the brink of turning 40, he was faced with a midlife crisis brought on by a dead-end sales job, a failing relationship, and an unsuccessful stint as a hip-hop artist.
  — Samantha Lande, Men's Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• The conventional wisdom at the time was that DNR secretary was a dead-end for a politician who harbored hopes of higher office.
  — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
• The residential neighbors of bars and restaurants whose streets are jammed with spillover parking or families whose walks dead-end into cars spilling from too-small lots into the curb cuts in sidewalks.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
• On a chilly night near downtown Los Angeles, a car maneuvers down a dark dead-end street.
  — Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the face of this dire situation, battery swapping is a distraction and dead-end that the planet can’t afford.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2021
• On the brink of turning 40, he was faced with a midlife crisis brought on by a dead-end sales job, a failing relationship, and an unsuccessful stint as a hip-hop artist.
  — Samantha Lande, Men's Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• The conventional wisdom at the time was that DNR secretary was a dead-end for a politician who harbored hopes of higher office.
  — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
• The residential neighbors of bars and restaurants whose streets are jammed with spillover parking or families whose walks dead-end into cars spilling from too-small lots into the curb cuts in sidewalks.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023

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dead end

3 of 3 noun

• We came to a dead end and had to turn around.
• My career has hit a dead end.
• After repeatedly hitting dead ends, the researchers took a step back.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• Over the course of 25 years, the investigation hit countless dead ends.
  — Antonia Noori Farzan, The Denver Post, 6 June 2019
• But the idea that the Right is weak — and that classical liberalism is a dead end, a source of that weakness — is pure fiction.
  — David French, National Review, 4 June 2019
• The Secret Service and Gilford police tailed him until Vallee hit a dead end.
  — Stephanie Clifford, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• Finding dead end streets, eating at random restaurants, observing the jacaranda trees loose their purple flowers.
  — Gael Couturier, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2019
• But these are the same critics who have coaxed Mr. Trump to crash into one immigration dead end after another.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
• Another letter came from a man in Europe who had emigrated seven years ago because Brazil was a dead end.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• In the chimpanzee, there is reason to speculate that over-specialization has not led to an evolutionary dead end, as may be the case with the other great apes.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Chrysler’s minivan would steer clear of those two dead ends, and carry American families onto the open roads toward, well, youth soccer and mall commerce.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
• Although most visitors treat Cades Cove as a dead end, intrepid drivers can follow two other routes out of the valley (although both are closed in winter).
  — Joe Yogerst, National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2019
• There are 149 public streets that end on waterfronts, and sometimes adjoining property owners have put up fences and landscaping at the dead ends.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2019
• In short, economists might make a comeback if the economy gets rough — or if the populist ideas being pushed by both political parties prove to be dead ends for greater prosperity.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
• These sterile hybrids are essentially evolutionary dead ends.
  — Rebecca Heisman, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
• This technique had been shown to work with laboratory rats in Air Force experiments, but ultimately the research hit a dead end.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
• The focus on launching new faces on an exclusive contract has led many newcomers, who may debut at a prominent show one season only to fade into obscurity the next, towards a dead end.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 15 May 2019
• The scene with the wife is a dead end for him, just an item to check off the list.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 May 2021
• 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
• When the couple pulled up to their house, at the dead end of the street, no one was around.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• 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
• Both thought the Arab-Israeli peace process was at a dead end.
  — Steven Simon, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Now, many of his big plans are headed for a dead end in the Senate.
  — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2021
• This portion of what is now the Crosstown Trail used to dead end within Glen Park.
  — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024