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

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

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

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?

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