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
The final pitch of his outing — a fastball that stayed in the middle of the plate — was crushed off the middle of the batter’s eye in dead center by Michael Busch.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 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
