How to Use blind alley in a Sentence

blind alley

noun

• Everyone was going down blind alleys and the oversight was just not there.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
• As with many Black Hat presentations, Moshe’s success came from working through endless mistakes and blind alleys.
  — PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
• There were a handful of moments when the pair made overlapping runs to take defenders away, but O’Reilly’s role and Quansah’s centre-back skillset meant England often ran into blind alleys out wide.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 27 June 2026
• The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a powerful recapitulation of earlier moments in American military history, moments which make clear the blind alley down which Hegseth is charging his brigades at full speed.
  — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2026
• PsiQuantum is part of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which started as a way to evaluate the legitimacy of quantum startups and could give investors comfort that the company is not headed down a blind alley.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 22 July 2026