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

With Sam Haggerty on first, Rodriguez crushed a 1-2 sinker from A’s starter Alex Wood over the wall in dead center for his second homer of the season.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2024

And even the trees in dead center were near enough that the sea breeze could take the ball into their branches—if he could hit it high enough.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt