dead center

Example Sentences

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The piston faces have small, crescent-shaped reliefs into which the valves extend near the top dead center.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

But the Dodgers needed just four batters to match that with Andy Pages belting a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, to dead center in the bottom of the inning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025

"RoboCop" endures and we are still talking about it almost four decades later because of the social and political issues it confronted, right there, dead center in the film.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

Taylor hit a solo homer to dead center in his first at-bat and drove in a pair of runs in his third plate appearance with a broken-bat single to right field.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

In my head, I see a dart fly through the air and hit one of those red and white target boards dead center.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam