• In many roads, especially untreated cul-de-sacs, refuse lorries have been unable to make their regular collections.

    BBC: Councils try to tackle backlog of rubbish collections

  • "If I can't get it, I don't worry about it, " she said, as she navigated ice-encrusted cul-de-sacs in a West Toledo neighborhood.

    WSJ: Trash Overhaul Stalls in Toledo

  • SACs are designated because of possible threats to important habitats and wildlife.

    BBC: Welsh estuaries are granted special conservation status

  • The residents' petition argued the facility - near Sandringham Road and several other cul-de-sacs - would be too close to a "large suburban area".

    BBC: Bristol

  • While in the womb, foetuses are free to somersault in their amniotic sacs, and this constant movement has so far hindered clear images of growing brains.

    BBC: Babies' brains to be mapped in the womb and after birth

  • As newcomers curse the building trucks on their way to the ski-slopes, some business leaders say the entire political debate of cattle versus cul-de-sacs is missing the point.

    ECONOMIST: The suburban West

  • At this time the company has more cash than debt, and can afford to float the risk of higher SACs while they may be necessary in the competitive environment.

    FORBES: Competition Could Pinch Netflix on Subscriber Costs

  • Caviar started out as pig slop--at least in western Europe, where, until the late 1800s, fishermen ripped the slimy egg sacs from sturgeon and fed them to their swine.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The data was published by a Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson as part of the Wikitrends project, but gave no explanation as to why Germans read about cul-de-sacs 10, 206, 548 times.

    BBC: Quiz of the week's news

  • Though regularly likened to the great Barry Humphries and Kath and Kim, Lilley has a wider repertoire of voices and has looked for his targets beyond the lace-curtain cul-de-sacs of Australian suburbia.

    BBC: Chris Lilley: Australia's finest cultural export?

  • If you spot one large enough to take (adults only, and no females with egg sacs attached), you try to spear it with a single thrust before it senses your presence and skitters away.

    BBC: Lobster diving in the Abacos

  • The minivan he's slowly touring through the cul-de-sacs of suburban Detroit is painted bright orange and its roof rack bristles with electronics: a global positioning system antenna, a laser measuring system and 14 digital cameras.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The summer heat had broken and construction seemed to be under way everywhere, as old villages were being converted into enclaves of villas and cul-de-sacs with names like the Prestige and Sky Blue and Full Silver Garden.

    NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

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