dead end

We are at a dead end in a meaningless war, and we are paying the bill for this fighting every day.

For years he seemed well on his way to a professional dead end, or worse.

“My personal life had basically reached a dead end and the pressures on me were intolerable,” he says.

After lightly interrogating a couple of the delivery boys at Afghan Brothers, we realized we had hit a dead end.

But the pleasures of vengeance and hedonism prove a dead end for Wanda.

Eventually the rift widened a little, and they came to a dead end, beyond which lay the cave.

It was like running though a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, every one leading to the same dead end.

He ate it quickly, then sat brooding over the empty tray, hating to admit to another dead end.

Things was going pretty good; but you might guess yours truly couldn't stand the dead end of things.

The Judge threw away the dead end of his cigar, and shouldered his way into the inmost circle.