How to Use dead-end in a Sentence

dead-end

1 of 3 adjective

• Our own home is located on a dead-end street with only six houses.
  — Liz Logan, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Millions find themselves in this predicament, left to settle for a dead-end job or worse.
  — Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for it, because this is a little dead-end street that goes to the ocean.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
• Yet such an exchange might turn the Gaza war away from its catastrophic, dead-end course, at least for a time.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• The rest just dead-end in mid-air, with treacherous drop-offs that could cause serious injury — or worse — should anyone fall from them.
  — By wayne Parry, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• The two bodies were discovered this year in front of the last house on a dead-end road in Columbus, Georgia.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 20 June 2023
• After waiting for the car to make it safely through the zone, the sergeant attempted to pull over the driver, who pulled onto a dead-end street.
  — Thallman, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
• The problem is that Busch Court is a dead-end street with a cul-de-sac that was not designed for large semitrucks to maneuver through.
  — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
• The project will also extend dead-end roads like Valley Drive and Ash Avenue.
  — Olivia Young, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
• Feeling trapped in her dead-end existence, Hazel longs for wider horizons, different people and places — in short, a change.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• Her family loves their dead-end street and the easy commute into Boston, but the home was small, with low-slung 7-foot ceilings.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end arguments and legislative gridlock.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• That sound continues on Grog, where Frog sing stories of dead-end detectives and fateful love that give your heart a soft punch.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• The subdivision, to be called Harbor Crest, will have one dead-end street that is around 800 feet long.
  — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• Here are the two main roads CX will go down in the future, one arrives at a glorious future, the other at a dark dead-end.
  — Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• Hannah is a 30-something single woman who's feeling adrift and bitter in both her personal life and in her dead-end job.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2024
• Lucarelli moved back home for a fresh start this spring after bottoming out in Los Angeles, short on cash and stuck in a dead-end job.
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
• Though there’s no proof that this actually happened, the isolated, dead-end road definitely makes an eerie setting.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
• Newbern’s residents live mostly in single-story homes on dead-end streets off State Route 61.
  — Meridith Edwards, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
• Timothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges are best friends and high school seniors in a dead-end North Texas town.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
• As police followed the vehicles, both drivers turned onto Reamy Drive, a narrow and dimly lit dead-end street.
  — Kendra Mann, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2026
• More than 20 years later, a middle-aged Ash Williams spends his days drinking, philandering, and working that same dead-end job.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026
• Enter Luna, a sunshiney trans woman who desperately needs money after losing her dead-end office job.
  — Lydia Wang, Women's Health, 16 June 2023
• Some agents reportedly pursued dead-end approaches to generate information that could help the broader group.
  — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
• But their tales of fragile relationships, dead-end jobs, and mediocre friendships are fleshed out with patient details straight out of a Kelly Reichardt film.
  — Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
• The post by the Humane Society said that late Wednesday night, three 8-week-old pointer/hound mix puppies were thrown from a car to the side of a dead-end road.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
• Each dead-end eruption of violence has put paid to the notion of a military solution; reconciliation is the only path forward.
  — Ziad Asali, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
• In the film, Perry plays Mike O’Donnell, a down-on-his-luck middle-aged father with a dead-end job, two kids who hate him and a wife who has just filed for divorce.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• In the new show, Fionna lives with her cat, Cake, working dead-end jobs in a world without magic until the pair is flung through the multiverse, pursued by a powerful foe.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• That’s in part because, for generations, many Egyptians discouraged their children from pursuing work as chefs, viewing kitchen jobs as a step toward a dead-end career.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 27 June 2023

dead-end

2 of 3 verb

• The race to the bottom is a dead-end street.
  — Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2025
• The pursuit ended when they were boxed in at a dead-end, the police said.
  — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
• Sammy’s stuck in a dead-end job, where his boss takes a much dimmer view of his options.
  — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
• Maps show the home is in a sparsely populated area on a dead-end road.
  — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 1 June 2026
• Neighbors described the area of the shooting as a quiet, dead-end street.
  — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
• What if icons like the Countach Evoluzione had sparked a lineage rather than a dead-end?
  — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2025
• In physics, that almost always signifies a dead-end.
  — Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
• The city’s new rules also limit dead-end streets in new developments.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
• But there's a difference between dead-end conflict and good conflict.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 June 2026
• In response to the prank, Guerry allegedly chased the teens down a dead-end street near a dump site.
  — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2026
• What looks like dead-end research today could become a building block for tomorrow’s cure.
  — Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Stevie has left college to work a dead-end job, and can't wait to leave Los Angeles.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
• Time confetti is basically a dead-end street to burnout, Brown adds.
  — Parents, 13 June 2026
• The trail hits a dead-end here, sending you back toward the entrance, but the zenlike peace of the valley will stick with you for a while.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
• However, a dead-end job doesn't necessarily mean a bad job.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
• On a chilly night near downtown Los Angeles, a car maneuvers down a dark dead-end street.
  — Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Inside, the tunnel design often includes blast-trap dead-end shafts aligned with the entrance axis.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
• Why would sharp-as-nails med school grads opt toward a presumably dead-end occupational route?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• The young parasites can also be taken up by dead-end hosts like birds, including chickens, and snakes—these are called paratenic hosts.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
• That is one of many problems that Zara and Luke go on to dodge, including dead-ends, dead bodies and a drunken mom.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
• But the incremental benefits could be misleadingly tying us to a road that leads to a dead-end.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• In the face of this dire situation, battery swapping is a distraction and dead-end that the planet can’t afford.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2021
• Doubles, glitches, erotic dread, narrative dead-ends.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
• With three exposures on a block that dead-ends above the East River, the house is also filled with beautiful light.
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
• The driver reportedly sped away into a dead-end neighborhood.
  — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
• This, Wyatt hopes, will nudge designers away from dead-end or unappealing results.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2022
• For example, Fortune visited one mile-long dead-end road that until recently was lined with just eight homes.
  — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
• The novel follows Julia Flang, a former gamer who lives with her uncle while working a series of dead-end jobs.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
• But on an early summer morning in 2023, Ashley’s body was found on a dead-end street just outside the city.
  — Jonathan Moens — Bellingcat, STAT, 18 June 2026
• In the sequel series, John and his thunder-buddy Ted are neighbors, both with families of their own and dead-end jobs.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026

dead end

3 of 3 noun

• We came to a dead end and had to turn around.
• My career has hit a dead end.
• Drill rap is a dead end that artists no longer need to go down.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
• But those attempts hit a dead end.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2026
• This is a crossroads, not a dead end.
  — Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• With no lungs, the highway hits a dead end.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
• But just as quickly, the team hit a dead end.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
• That doesn’t mean AI is a dead end.
  — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• So a lot of my work has these dead ends in my writing.
  — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
• The case has had a few breakthroughs, and some dead ends.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 14 May 2026
• Roads will always show up around you that lead to dead ends.
  — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
• Laboy drove onto a grassy area, but reached a dead end.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
• What makes sense for one might be a dead end for the other.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
• There were about two dozen of us who had landed in the same dead end.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2021
• Sensing a dead end, Willy walked away.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• Each time someone has tried to crack the code, it's led to a dead end.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• Taylor said the other ideas are dead ends, as well.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, AJC.com, 18 Mar. 2026
• The rest were preambles or dead ends.
  — Dan Turello, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
• In retrospect, that was a dead end.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
• Don’t let your temper cause this bright new path to turn into a dead end.
  — Essence, 17 Jan. 2023
• Her brother hit a dead end street, bailed from the car and started to run.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
• Yeomans’s team pursued them one by one, but each proved to be a dead end.
  — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
• When the couple pulled up to their house, at the dead end of the street, no one was around.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Still, there are signs that some residents know that drugs are a dead end for their town.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
• Both thought the Arab-Israeli peace process was at a dead end.
  — Steven Simon, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• The fourth, tucked away in a dusty dead end, is only as big as four ping-pong tables.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• Some influencers began to call the war a dead end.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
• For Joseph, a couple of these jobs look like dead ends anyway.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
• Your hair won't be weighed down by dead ends and the results will leave you with flowing locks.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
• The calls were dead ends, and Josiah came to loathe making them.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023