Use "cul de sac" in a sentence

1. Both girls were then being backed down the narrow alley cul de sac by Titania's initial knuckleheads and five other equally nefarious louts

2. Well-kept Victorian facades gave way to run-down tenements, treeless cul de sacs, glowering terrace houses and streets strewn with snotty urchins and mouldering rubbish

3. I ran behind the cover of the houses to the cul de sac at the top of the hill

4. We are struggling in a cul de sac with muskets aimed at us from the housetops