How to Use cul-de-sac in a Sentence

cul-de-sac

noun
  • The home sits in a cul-de-sac spread out over two acres.
    — Pueng Vongs, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Here are the final five (of eight) episodes, set in a cul-de-sac.
    — Mike Hughes, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The home sits on 1.6 acres at the end of a cul-de-sac and a long private driveway.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The whole process of building the cul-de-sac took nearly five months.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The hogs continue to root around in the yard as dogs bark in the background along the quiet cul-de-sac.
    — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The property is located at the end of a cul-de-sac and edges a golf course.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2024
  • FitzGerald’s first apartment at the Black and Whites had this view over the end of the cul-de-sac toward the river.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Feb. 2024
  • James Keoughan sold the five-bedroom, cul-de-sac home at 905 Dowling Court.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
  • The site of Erickson Field became a cul-de-sac, 1st Court.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2024
  • The home is on a wooded cul-de-sac about nine miles east of La Brunante, a food co-op in Racine village.
    — Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The young Wards were one of the original four couples who lived on the show’s iconic cul-de-sac.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The six-bedroom dwelling spans 8,300 square feet and rests at the end of a cul-de-sac in a gated neighborhood.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 15 July 2024
  • Emma Grace is a little girl who lives on Canute’s cul-de-sac.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2024
  • Zoom in: Look for blocks and cul-de-sacs where multiple houses go all out, which adds to the glow.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
  • To avoid being trapped in a funk cul-de-sac, he’s branched out to compose music for film and TV.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The two-story home, set on half an acre at the end of a cul-de-sac in a wee glen in the Coldwater Canyon area, was built in 1957.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The chase ended in a cul-de-sac, and Berki was fatally shot.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2023
  • The Israelis and the Palestinians are in a dangerous cul-de-sac.
    — Daniel C. Kurtzer, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2023
  • In the confessional scene, played out on a dusty Italian cul-de-sac, Kendall is a mess.
    — Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The five-bedroom home sits on almost a half-acre of land off a secluded cul-de-sac.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The five-bedroom home sits on almost a half-acre of land off a secluded cul-de-sac.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The company’s design shop is in the Bay Area, in a cul-de-sac behind Pivotal.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The property sits on a cul-de-sac and overlooks the Hallbrook Country Club golf course.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2024
  • Garcia said the victims were a mother, a father and a young son, maybe 7, who had been living in the cul-de-sac house for a year.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In a cul-de-sac along Alta Crest Drive, where more than a dozen homes burned, neighbors wept together in the street.
    — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The grounds were clean and green, with big houses that lined a cul-de-sac where residents walked around taking in the sunlight.
    — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As the sun set, the last water drained out of a 1-million gallon tank tucked away in a cul-de-sac north of Palisades Village.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The three-level Harford County home, at the end of a leafy cul-de-sac, offers its own getaway.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2025
  • This was a woman who should have lived the rest of her life in a beautiful suburban cul-de-sac.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 23 June 2023
  • The shooting happened at the top of the nearby cul-de-sac shortly afterward.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023

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