Q: What does the French word 'cul-de-sac' mean in English?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

We should note that the u in Latin culīna and derivatives is short.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MA, A SMALL BIRD.] Reference

All they have to do is reject such allegations, leaving us nowhere except in a name calling cul-de-sac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fascism and how not to fight it] Reference

Whoa, was that com­men­tary writ­ten by a nine year old girl, or an aspir­ing PhD in cul­tural studies?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snuppy!!! « Snarkmarket] Reference

Nearly got a stroke of the sun, Tom -- what Whiffle would call a cul de sac by taking off my chapeau in my poetical frenzy so shove on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

Side streets, including residential streets and lesser traveled streets such as cul-de-sacs are plowed next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

They have lived on the same cul-de-sac all their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney and Chelsea] Reference

Len's house was a ranch style at the end of a suburban cul du sac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electricscooterland] Reference

No way of knowing (unintelligible) find a few cul-de-sacs and buy them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Biggest Mountain Goats Fan] Reference

The street seems so short now; I'm at the cul-de-sac in only a few minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Home Again] Reference

They lead in circles, are under construction, their cul-de-sacs invite no one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Certainty and Not the Poem I Meant to Write] Reference

The eucalyptus trees are gone; the cul-de-sac is so bright now it hurts my eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Home Again] Reference

Lesli called out to her, but Nikki looked away, accelerating out the cul-de-sac.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away] Reference

Pleasant cul-de-sacs and private streets gave those homes an air of inviolability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drawing Up Safer Cities] Reference

Now everywhere I go they like Hovi back, up out the corner office of the cul-de-sac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay-Z's Return with 'Kingdom Come' Spotty] Reference

            "In a cul-de-sac next to a grain feed storage lot outsideChino.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Your Brother] Reference

It was all over once those things started showing up in cul-de-sacs across the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodnight, Wham-O] Reference

I search cul-de-sacs and strip malls for indications of old ceremonial mounds and adobe towers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Root: Did D.C. Voters Reject Education Reform?] Reference

Mornings, he walks the perimeter of the cul-de-sac, gripping fifty pound dumbbells in each hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney and Chelsea] Reference

Walking into the hotel, which is at the end of a quiet cul de sac, feels like entering a palace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favorite Places, Best Picks] Reference

No way of knowing so I follow you down your twisting alleyways, find a few cul-de-sacs of my own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pocket Narratives from the Mountain Goats] Reference

A quick shift and it is away, galloping ponderously over the speed bumps of the cul-de-sac into its future.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference

They grabbed her by the cul-de-sac of her manger and tore her haircut and dragged her away from the landfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference

 Jogging up from the end of their cul-de-sac was Brooke Xavier, fully adorned in a bright, neon-purple jump suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Wall of Suburbia] Reference

We left the cul-de-sac, Len taking sharp weaves like a child with a new bike, speeding up anytime I would get close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electricscooterland] Reference

Then a miracle happened, the guy took an off-ramp and turned into a cul-de-sac somewhere out in that Godforsaken burb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 11] Reference

There's life after use of the car in the utility sector, as storage for neighborhoods, cul-de-sacs, as energy sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nissan And GM Bet Americans Ready To Go Electric] Reference

Labor needs to transition from where the cul-de-sacs where the bubble perniciously lured to where it can add real value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Sky series: The anonymous hedge-fund manager's plan] Reference

Her curiosity about his innocence died utterly as she spied what was obviously their destination halfway down to the cul de sac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlaws] Reference

  As I neared my driveway my headlights lit up the island of grass at the center of the cul-de-sac, where Hamilton had been hit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor, Dead Hamilton] Reference