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dead-end street

n. a street with only one way in or out [syn: blind alley, cul de sac, impasse]

Usage examples of "dead-end street".

Then it showed again and he'd use it for a while until there'd be a dead-end street or alley and he'd have to go back and start all over.

He lives in a street called Brass End, which is a very minor dead-end street, and he said it wasn't in the Streetfinder.

It may have been so once, but the mojos are rapidly heading down a dead-end street.

He pulled into a secluded, dead-end street and locked the convertible.

The house itself had seen better days, though, as had most of the other homes on that dead-end street, and Nan suspected that it was rented.

It is a dead-end street and there are no pedestrians who pass by chance.

He was heading into a dead-end street, but there was an alley leading from it.

Dolphin Court turned out to be a short, dead-end street in a neighbourhood of small, single-family homes.