dead end• He realized that the job at which he had been aiming all these years seemed to him to be a dead end.• Like the preciseastronomicalobservations of the Maya, these technicalachievements proved to be a dead end.• Working at the warehouse seemed like a dead end.• It's a dead end isn't it.• This was a dead end for me.• He thinks they have reached an evolutionarydead end.• It felt like some sort of dead end.
come to/reach a dead end• She'd come to a dead end.• A few hundred yardsbeyond them, the pathcame to a dead end.• But this too came to a dead end.• The trailcame to a dead end.