| 1 | We drove into a dead end and had to back out. | |
| 2 | Fashion that is just about merchandise always feels like a dead end. | |
| 3 | The animal that eats its offspring, those genes are a biological dead end. | |
| 4 | She ran faster until she eventually came to a dead-end where the most gruesome sight met her eyes. | |
| 5 | There are too many of them anyway; why would you want to point your visitors to a dead end? |