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Examples
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He saw a building that looked like a small warehouse, maybe a hundred feet long and fifty feet wide, sitting at the head of the ravine where the canyon dead-ended.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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He tried the first side road he came to, but it dead-ended only a few hundred meters inland.
Nothing in the World (an excerpt) Roy Kesey 2011
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He wanted to run out and wave the driver down, hitch a ride to where the road dead-ended at the river.
The Place He Had to Go Cortney McLellan 2011
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The grass path I had been following dead-ended into a four foot deep, two foot tall briar patch of ornamental landscaping.
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: A Pedestrian Braves the Challenges of Sprawl F. Kaid Benfield 2011
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We dead-ended up on a high, desolate cliff from which I imagined that I could see all the way to Mexico.
"Best" Beach 2009
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He wanted to run out and wave the driver down, hitch a ride to where the road dead-ended at the river.
The Place He Had to Go Cortney McLellan 2011
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We dead-ended up on a high, desolate cliff from which I imagined that I could see all the way to Mexico.
"Best" Beach 2009
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We dead-ended up on a high, desolate cliff from which I imagined that I could see all the way to Mexico.
"Best" Beach 2009
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We dead-ended up on a high, desolate cliff from which I imagined that I could see all the way to Mexico.
"Best" Beach 2009
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The alley dead-ended at the tall iron fence that surrounded the cemetery.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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