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

Gogol goes for runs around the lake with Gerald, arduous laps along steep hilly dirt roads, so infrequently traveled that they can occupy the dead center.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri