Wilson's lifelong quest led him into some strange culs-de-sac. From Wordnik.com. [A Lost World] Reference
The tunnel had branched into two smaller halls and several culs-de-sac. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
It contains between fifty and sixty streets, including the alleys and culs-de-sac. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
And high-rises are culs-de-sac: two thousand people jammed together in the air …. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’] Reference
The word may also be applied to narrow streets or culs-de-sac between major streets. From Wordnik.com. [connotation of "callej�n" ??] Reference
The room numbers made little sense and the building was chockablock with culs-de-sac and dead ends. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
Peyton Avenue and South Lane were culs-de-sac and soon filled, and the overflow flooded our trenches. From Wordnik.com. [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference
The sound came from one of the many culs-de-sac that appeared at random along the length of the tunnel. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
Feeling his way forward like a blind man, he goes up culs-de-sac, gets bogged down and starts out anew. From Wordnik.com. [Claude Simon - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Beyond the building were a pool and a putting green, and the trailers stood on U-shaped culs-de-sac around this central area. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Death]
Any attempt to go backwards steers you into barriers and culs-de-sac, and if you jumped over them youd encounter a rabid three-headed dog. From Wordnik.com. [What's Going On] Reference
One might imagine culs-de-sac being converted to faux Main Streets, or McMansion developments being bulldozed and reforested or turned into parks. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Slum?] Reference
Along came sterile housing tracts set in isolating culs-de-sac, and shopping centers whose only ties to localities were the dollars of local consumers. From Wordnik.com. [Gas Guzzling Gavin] Reference
"It is rather striking to see that this overlap between long-lasting archaic populations and modern humans is documented only at the two extremities of the Old World, in the two culs-de-sac which are Western Europe and Indonesia," says Hublin. From Wordnik.com. [Homo Erectus Survival] Reference
Now they are parted by a pencil, then by a flood of silvery splendour; while under the projecting cornices and the huge hanging-windows of fantastic wood-work, supported by gigantic corbels, and deep verandahs, and gateways vast enough for Behemoth to pass through, and blind wynds and long culs-de-sac, lie patches of thick darkness, made visible by the dimmest of oil lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Sudden Curve:] Reference
The case abounded in these culs-de-sac which seemed to lead nowhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Daffodil Mystery] Reference
Joe Cole was disappearing down culs-de-sac as if he'd bought a satnav off Del Boy. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
This is the case especially in exurban communities with their generic winding culs-de-sac. From Wordnik.com. [Archinect.com Feed] Reference
A cul-de-sac (plural: culs-de-sac), close, or court (American and Australian English) is a dead-end street with only one inlet / outlet. From Wordnik.com. [Today in Oregon: The Oregonian] Reference
Branching off from the central thoroughfare of music history are occasional culs-de-sac, blind alleys occupied by influential individual musicians, groups, and sometimes single records. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
In certain parts of the abdominal cavity there are recesses of peritoneum forming culs-de-sac or pouches, which are of surgical interest in connection with the possibility of the occurrence of retroperitoneal herniæ. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen] Reference
We park in front of one of countless mock-Tudor houses lining culs-de-sac like fingers around a palm, the home of the parents of Todd Whitman, a producer of Freeman's Sunday-evening talk show on Channel 50 as well as Disguised as a Grownup. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
The aim is that visitors may pass through the yard, on sufferance, as in a Venetian campo, on their way across the city but the route is currently gated at its northern end while city officials negotiate with adjoining residents who, fearful of increasing antisocial behaviour, want to retain their inner city culs-de-sac to keep strangers out. From Wordnik.com. [Land+Living] Reference
By driving little culs-de-sac and re-entrant alleys at the back of his larger rows of shoddy mansions, he is enabled to run up a smaller terrace, or crescent, or place, as the case may be, composed of tiny shallow cottages with the narrowest possible frontage, and the tallest possible elevation, which will yet entitle their occupiers to feel themselves within the sacred pale of social salvation, in the blest security of the mystic W. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
It’s all green grass and culs-de-sac until a mysterious family, the Klopeks, move in next door. From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 Voyeuristic Films » Scene-Stealers] Reference
For example, in cities, the degree of criminality is affected by liberty of movement; it’s higher in culs-de-sac. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’] Reference
A cliff standing, so to say, at the corner of one of those little recesses or culs-de-sac which here and there break the uniformity of the range. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’ For example, in cities, the degree of criminality is affected by liberty of movement; it’s higher in culs-de-sac. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’] Reference
There are a couple of gaudy strips near the turnpike, packed with malls and chain restaurants, but in general, it’s a lovely, leafy place, with pretty homes set back from well-manicured lawns on pleasant little streets and culs-de-sac. From Wordnik.com. [Taylor Swift Elle Magazine April 2010] Reference
I tour through courtyards and culs-de-sac crossing acres of park and oceans of asphalt hoping to see a familiar face someone else out strolling in their imagination or dreams someone else that remembers these places as i do, a familiar face and we will sit and talk, laugh and say. From Wordnik.com. [Bend Blogs] Reference
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