NOUN
- a street with only one way in or out
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(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
all the clues led the police into blind alleys
so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley
How To Use blind alley In A Sentence
- He said that resources were being wasted as a result with different research programmes heading up blind alleys one after each other. Times, Sunday Times
- Ryan Wayne added little to the attack and like other players ran up blind alleys.
- He took the next turning to the left but found himself in a blind alley.
- Progress in science cannot be made without exploring blind alleys.
- A blind alley at the end of which is a scaffold.
- This sort of thinking just seems to be leading us up/down a blind alley.
- False information has led the police up a series of blind alleys.
- When he invested in that business, he went up a blind alley.
- Tiger aims to eat all, and people have to make a tiger a blind alley corner.
- You don't know how much of it ends up in a blind alley.
