What is "cul-de-sacs"

Usage examples of "cul-de-sacs".

Lost in the maze of crescents and cul-de-sacs which made this town such a trial to traverse, or a victim of the creatures that had assaulted the car?

She took every turn she could, only avoiding cul-de-sacs, and the lack of any rationale in her escape route seemed to flummox her pursuers.

I'd been through almost the whole register of cul-de-sacs and failed to find anyone that fitted a factor x.

I had used his search-and-discard method to sort out truth from lies, and to go carefully down the cul-de-sacs, but however flatly I said the name, it would cause consternation.

I found the door to it tucked inside one of those little cul-de-sacs you find in older hotels—a blind corridor maybe fifteen feet long, with two doors facing each other across it and a third door, probably to some kind of storage or maid's closet, at the end.

Putney Road was two kilometers long, with innumerable cul-de-sacs leading off it.

The single compacted stone road ran along two hundred meters inland from the sea through an unbroken forest of shaggy native trees, with small cul-de-sacs branching off where clusters of chalets and bungalows sheltered under the branches.