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
In the bottom of the sixth, Seattle center fielder Julio Rodríguez robbed Taylor of a two-run home run to dead center field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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
And suddenly the kid was hugging him, squeezing with a power you never suspected was in that little body, unless you had seen him pole a baseball almost to the trees in dead center field.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
