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Example sentences for "blind alley"

  • Rue Popincourt, at the bottom of a blind alley, and also in the neighborhood of the Faubourg St. Antoine.

  • He says about Art that it is decrepit, that it has got into a blind alley, that it is not what it ought to be, and so on, and so on.

  • Of course hunger is an old story, in the desire to eat we have got into a blind alley, but still eating is necessary, and we shall go on eating however the philosophers and irate old men moralise.

  • Lyov Nikolaevitch wants to persuade us in his little book that at the present time Art has entered upon its final phase, that it is in a blind alley, from which it has no outlet (except retreat).

  • Eager to tell his mother of the wonders of the day, Terry darted off, and in a few minutes was at home in Blind Alley.

  • Then, bethinking himself that he had stayed long enough inside his uncomfortably wet clothing, he raced up the wharf, and made for his home in Blind Alley.

  • That afternoon Mr. Drummond picked his way carefully through the perils of Blind Alley to the grimy tenement where the Ahearns abode, and inquired for Terry.

  • Right I figured as a way which seemed to finish in a blind alley or cul-de-sac, but which, as one neared what seemed to be its end, led off in a new direction.

  • One can live if one has a motive theory within one; without it-- And then, just as I was coming to the last stretches of what seemed a blind alley and no more, my confidence was justified.

  • It was five or six days since Larry Strangways's call, and no real development of my blind alley was in sight.

  • Since these can fill the "blind alley" occupations with fair satisfaction they should be "guided" into the first available positions of this kind.

  • It is important to note that the employments here referred to are not "blind alley" occupations.

  • One who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, in the absence of aggressive competition and without close supervision, can find his or her level in the "blind alley" occupations.

  • There is sometimes a chamber which does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of shoals, a tranquil nook.

  • The fragmentary lane was prolonged between buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley.

  • Go under wall, about 20-30 feet, till you strike wall of blind alley.

  • Dug in a direct line across the street, and underneath the south wall, the tunnel will connect with the "blind alley.

  • At the end of this sort of blind alley, at the corner of the right-hand cutting, a house lower than the rest, forming a species of cape in the street, might be noticed.

  • Whenever the rat finds himself in a blind alley, he comes out and enters the other door, so finally getting his reward on every trial.

  • On successive trials he goes less and less deeply into a blind alley, till finally he passes the entrance to it without even turning his head.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blind alley" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better idea; blind alley; blind girl; blind man; blind obedience; blinding flash; but sometimes; certain articles; commercial success; common justice; fall asleep; fathom water; found means; here very; inch lengths; known works; large area; looked back; night kiss; rial roots; strong government; subsistence agriculture and fishing; tenant right; thrown away; what must; whosoever believeth