How To Use Dead end In A Sentence

  • The terrorism of the Baader Meinhof gang had turned out to be a dead end, but the politics of anti-nuclear protest had a lasting appeal to middle-class Germans.
  • He is looking for me and when he finds me he is going to feed me rice and gone off fish till I die as he knows I have not pooed in a week because he read my dead end blog.
  • The present crisis on the docks illustrates the dead end of the nationalist and pro-capitalist policy of the trade union bureaucracy.
  • Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.
  • The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Working at the warehouse seemed like a dead end.
  • They were caught after turning into a dead end and hitting a gazebo in a garden.
  • A few dark corners and dead ends, one feels, would have improved the impressive overall design. Times, Sunday Times
  • A sublime, monumental dead end, that has produced some brilliant sado-masochist poetry from band and critic alike.
  • Across from the little dead end road was a park, with the multicolor jungle gym sets, along with a small basketball court, and a 2 sided handball court.
  • This procedural episode has the team running into countless dead ends, faulty witnesses, and a little bit of luck during their manhunt.
  • While I was writing that doomed journal article, I kept having to rerun analyses and rework some results, which ended up yielding some insights that got me unstuck from a totally different aspect of the project that I had given up as a dead end …. and is now a conference paper. 2009 September « This is what a computer scientist looks like
  • With the failure of the experiment, we had reached a dead end.
  • Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street.
  • Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
  • Yet this way lies a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
  • One-time Grammy gal returns from the pop dead end of 2001's Love, Shelby with a back-to-basics approach to country balladry.
  • We've come to a dead end? The Sun
  • Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
  • I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end.
  • And being a dead end, the alley led to nowhere else.
  • Yet again we had reached a dead end. Sharing the Success - the story of NFC
  • He is teaching the rough-hewn and poor kids of London's East End, in a school that is considered a dead end for both students and teachers.
  • One researcher writes, “Whereas evolutionary biology can rarely predict where any species is going, it does predict that, despite their short-term ecological success, unicolonial ants are an evolutionary dead end.” World Wide Mind
  • Ivy Lane the cul-de-sac and dead end if you turned down it wrong, lay there and things die in life. The Flowers Were For This
  • We tried cutting through a back road but it was a dead end.
  • In other words, the tribuneship was designed to be a political dead end—a place to confine the ranting and the rancorous, the incompetent and the unpromotable: the effluent of the body politic. Imperium
  • The system they defend, based on the immense accumulation of private wealth at the expense of society as a whole, has reached a dead end.
  • However, when it comes to self-destruction any car combined with a hard-core muscle car mentality will eventually lead to a dead end.
  • Kremlin officials dismiss talk of dead ends as pointless whining and alarmism from liberals.
  • And being a dead end, the alley led to nowhere else.
  • With the failure of the experiment, we had reached a dead end.
  • `I'm staring at so many dead ends here, I'd seriously consider a clairvoyant ,' he said. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
  • If you do come to a dead end, then you have a dilemma. The Sun
  • It showed that gravitational collapse was not as much of a dead end as it had appeared to be.
  • Yet again we had reached a dead end. Sharing the Success - the story of NFC
  • The negotiations have reached a dead end.
  • The beauty of Venice is that you cross a bridge, turn a corner and you could come to a dead end or to an enormous square. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the absence of mitigating factors the virus is likely to hit a dead end wherever strict role separation is practiced.
  • In the other parts of the city, all through the dead ends and turns of the back alleys, Rocky knew his way like he had a map stored away in some garbage can.
  • In babies with esophageal atresia, the esophagus comes to a dead end instead of connecting to the stomach.
  • Negotiators have reached a dead end in their attempts to find a peaceful solution.
  • The alley was a dead end; the granite wall at the end was at least twelve feet high.
  • And those of us who disagree with them should spend more time attacking the logic of their arguments instead of maligning them as “dead ender” “leftists.” Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher?
  • However, Curly must have feared he'd turned into a dead end when he gave up his job as manager at a supermarket to become a house husband, looking after baby Ben.
  • They understood, too, that appeals to racial pride are a dead end without a larger vision of economic justice that cuts across racial divisions.
  • Speaking to FoodProductionDaily. com, Dr Jürgen Hofmann, EHEDG executive committee member, said that interfaces in new food and beverage machinery have been proving problematic for the industry with dead ends as a result of faulty valve design trapping product and allowing soilage, thus preventing sterile units post cleaning. BakeryAndSnacks RSS
  • Negotiators have reached a dead end in their attempts to find a peaceful solution.
  • It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts. Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
  • You get inside, and you're in a murky labyrinth of dead ends and sloping walkways and spaces that might be rooms, but then again might just be spaces.
  • His heart pounded quickly, beating out a fierce tattoo in his strong chest as he walked down the paths which wound and turned into dead ends.
  • Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street.
  • Why are the cul de…cully sac…teh dead end hidden cornerses marked “Good playce to eat pinny gigs” or “good place to eet skwirrlols”? No…..eye iz sik - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • But essentially I was moving away from dead ends more than being drawn toward children.
  • Yet again we had reached a dead end. Sharing the Success - the story of NFC
  • Police hunting the thugs who pushed a wheelchair-bound youngster into the road admitted today their search had ‘hit a dead end’.
  • It skips along, at times precarious (dead end, sad sack lives, physical and emotional abuse, and world domination by a vampire plant), at times joyous (an aw-shucks love story, a rags-to-riches business success, and a fantastic sense of place, established by a song that states its preference for downtown to uptown). James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton
  • Can't the world conspire to ambush you, putting up dead ends and roadblocks where once there were wide-open personal spaces?
  • As my graduation drew closer, we could no longer avoid the fact that my dreams of going to college could come to a dead end. Christianity Today
  • In following up these, one would have to be careful to see that they were loops that led back to the main road and not dead ends.
  • The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.
  • The past dead ends of science may not be relevant for a science class, but they are quite relevant for a *history of science* or *philosophy of science* class, as a corrective to the notion that science is a linear progression of successful theories. An Atheist Defends Intelligent-Design Creationism - The Panda's Thumb
  • His heart pounded quickly, beating out a fierce tattoo in his strong chest as he walked down the paths which wound and turned into dead ends.
  • Venice is so incredibly finite, so full of dead ends and limited-access campi. Bad Bag
  • Like the precise astronomical observations of the Maya, these technical achievements proved to be a dead end.
  • But even that will do little to motivate employees if the job feels like a dead end.
  • He ran away until he was backed into a dead end, with one security guard in front of him, and one behind. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rigidity and adamancy to continue with the strike action until management appears to capitulate leads to a dead end.
  • There are narrow alleys, sharp corners, open courtyards, one-way streets, even dead ends.
  • It is a complete dead end for progressive politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • My prejudiced systematics lumps them with dodos, on the far side of things: they are primitives, throwbacks, dead ends, clumsies, shufflers and waddlers, kickers and swimmers, not flyers. A Year on the Wing
  • For Lukacs, Dostoevsky was strictly speaking uninterpretable, an incomprehensible dead end within the modern world or a harbinger of something new that only ‘later artists will one day weave into a great unity’.
  • Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
  • He thinks that searching for individual enzymes in the termite will be a dead end, but that harnessing the power of whole environments might yield results. Gut Reactions
  • I'd come to a dead end the way things were. The Sun
  • They will dug fake tunnels, tunnel that leads to dead ends, tunnels that impossibly knot into themselves, tunnels with sonar-cancelling pings, tunnels that lead to police headquarters, tunnels that effloresce into a thicket of infinitely bifurcating tunnels, and tunnels that lead to other dimensions. Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales
  • This line of investigation could prove to be a complete dead end.
  • Sherry's just taken a wrong turning into a very dead end.
  • Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street.
  • It is a complete dead end for progressive politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the failure of the experiment, we had reached a dead end.
  • “It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts.” Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
  • Shipley and Sevier managed to get a partial label discography from local collector Dante Carfagna, but their research turned up more dead ends than leads. Chicago Reader
  • After all, why would the Creator of the universe, the One who caused all things to be, the archetype of abundance, who holds everything together through the power of his word, before whom every knee shall bow choose to be incarnate as an example of an evolutionary dead end destined for Darwinian deselection? Elton John, theologian « Anglican Samizdat
  • The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
  • It took nearly an hour and several dead ends to find what they assumed was the bridge, only to decide that fact was disputable.
  • Gesualdo's later madrigals, however fascinating their scent of decadence, are an evolutionary dead end.
  • Players will speed through tracks that twist, turn, loop, corkscrew, shoot upward, drop off, dead end, and more.
  • He was crippled, impaired, and everywhere he turned he saw dead ends.
  • Forty-fifth to Fifty-sixth Streets, formerly dead ends at railway yards, became thoroughfares.
  • Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street.
  • While the Founders had quite a bit to offer in the way of revolutionary thought, they were anything but perfect, and using the US Constitution as holy writ is ultimately a dead end, even if better by comparison to 99% of what goes on in politics today. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Interview with Glenn Beck
  • Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
  • In fact, it now looks as though that generation's approach to theoretical physics may have been a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because Working XML follows the development of actual projects, it will give me more opportunities to warn you against dead ends than I'd have in a one-shot article with only a hypothetical situation.
  • He said it was near impossible to walk the riverbank route because it led down to a dead end.
  • The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
  • This line of investigation could prove to be a complete dead end.
  • Like the precise astronomical observations of the Maya, these technical achievements proved to be a dead end.
  • Yet again we had reached a dead end. Sharing the Success - the story of NFC
  • Closets become meeting rooms; classrooms get divided; hallway dead ends are partitioned.

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