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
Planted dead center on the stage in “This House Is Not a Home,” a slippery, ever-shifting work by Nile Harris, is a house — a bounce house.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2024
We skidded to a stop dead center, and as though we’d planned it, we reached out at the same time to grab hands.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
