Example Sentences

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And just as she acts on her instructions to “get him out of his shell,” he persuades her to consider why she’ll be dead-ending it in Montauk for the foreseeable future.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Bailey Street passes Mariachi Plaza, where mariachis hang out looking to be hired, before dead-ending at White Memorial hospital.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2022

The road’s 92-mile route winds up, over and around sheer mountain passes before dead-ending at an old mining community at its westernmost point.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

Meticulously pruned, terraced chardonnay vines dominated the full vista, dead-ending at the slopes of Mont Blanc off to the north.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2015

Mami pushed me into the plane, down a long aisle lined with seats dead-ending against a wall—my first glimpse of what New York would be like.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago