Stuck in a dead-end job. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
FEINSTEIN: It's kind of a dead-end street for most. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: The Women of the Senate Discuss 'The Women of the Senate' - July 26, 2000] Reference
Fantasies from a dead-end place in the American desert?. From Wordnik.com. [On The Trail Of Il Duce] Reference
If this was a dead-end, we were going to have to hike out. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Futurist: The Future Sneaks Up-In Tuscany] Reference
The house was tucked into a dead-end alley off Wiggins road. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Child (Part I of III)] Reference
Just about the stuffiest, dullest, dead-end in the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
Welcome to Arizona, the home of dry heat and dead-end bigotry. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Zirin: This Sunday: The Diamondbacks Come to DC... and They're Not Alone] Reference
The local people said that ` s an 18-mile-long twisting dead-end. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2006] Reference
Shabazz wandered in and out of bad relationships and dead-end jobs. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Two Lonely Lives] Reference
It's the opposite of destination television -- dead-end TV, I guess. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Touch That Remote] Reference
WSJ: You've been very firm in your beliefs about this dead-end life. From Wordnik.com. [Woody Allen on Death, Love and Financial Backing] Reference
This dead-end trap of mutually assured ignorance was not inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [John Shook, Ph.D.: For Atheists and Believers, Ignorance Is No Excuse] Reference
Hence, it was inevitable that it would run into a political dead-end. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Of The Global Warming Movement] Reference
"We were desperadoes, dead-end kids," says cellist Jascha Silberstein. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of An Ensemble] Reference
But, when we return, your gas tank, your wallets, and dead-end politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008] Reference
What happens if the career path you've taken and enjoyed hits a dead-end?. From Wordnik.com. [Kristen Houghton: Changing Careers May Allow You to Fulfill Your Dreams] Reference
Later, she said she thought he wasn't very mature and he had a dead-end job. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Coggins: Chasing Lotta] Reference
The hard part is to prep dead-end kids for the few openings available to them. From Wordnik.com. [Help Begins In The 'Hood] Reference
Even in the summertime on this dead-end road system, people get confused, lost. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2006] Reference
For instance, working in the art department of an accounting firm might be a dead-end job. From Wordnik.com. [Adele Scheele: How to Escape a Dead-End Job] Reference
He's the original nowhere man: dead-end job at an insurance company, childless marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Elizabeth Brundage Seems So Well-Adjusted. Then Why Does She Write Such Violent Novels?] Reference
They will all continue to spend their mornings and nights taking the Western 49 to dead-end jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Western 49] Reference
Mr. HAYES: Because if you're sampling and things like that, that's kind of like a dead-end street. From Wordnik.com. [Dig It: 'The Ultimate Isaac Hayes'] Reference
One way to break out is to look on the job as an opportunity and a challenge -- not as a dead-end. From Wordnik.com. [Adele Scheele: How to Escape a Dead-End Job] Reference
Perhaps the lone human on Jumala herded up into this dead-end valley by the globes or the blue beasts. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
The idea is to give workers more time to find productive careers rather than tying them to dead-end jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Taking On The Machine] Reference
He's the original nowhere man: dead-end job at an insurance company, childless marriage, gray personality. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Elizabeth Brundage Seems So Well-Adjusted. Then Why Does She Write Such Violent Novels?] Reference
(Soundbite of music) ROSE: Yin Yang Cafe opened its doors in 1994 in a former laundromat on a dead-end street. From Wordnik.com. [Atlanta Soul Scene Reborn] Reference
London brought Sir Lewis Huntley to Upper Berkeley and to the short dead-end street which constituted the Mews. From Wordnik.com. [The Penal Cluster] Reference
Relatively few modern office workers are dead-end paper pushers; but neither are they high-technology whiz kids. From Wordnik.com. [Learning Not To Panic] Reference
I am more miffed at how these superficial poll questions set the entire discussion down a tedious and dead-end path. From Wordnik.com. [Pete Enns, Ph.D.: Evolution and Religion: Why Religion Pollsters Should Go to Seminary First] Reference
Similarly, NGOs increasingly use donor money to run businesses in poor areas, but all too often back dead-end projects. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion: Why Think Small?] Reference
During our lifetime motherhood has been trashed as a dead-end, no-pay career and elevated as a sacred and essential calling. From Wordnik.com. [A New Roof On An Old House] Reference
"On the one hand, there's no doubt that it's a make-work, dead-end job, but, on the other hand, it's also a vice presidency.". From Wordnik.com. [The Trophy Syndrome] Reference
At last count, 31-year-old Shear has held 65 jobs, each at least as dead-end as "Wild Thing" Williams's gig with the Phillies. From Wordnik.com. [The Ultimate Working Girl] Reference
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