dead-eye
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When it was all over, his dead-eye accuracy was recognized by FIFA, which awarded him a shotgun as the best player at the World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Nissanka and Karunaratne ran well until the latter was sold short by a tight single and Stone's dead-eye throw.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
Boston charged out of halftime with a 23-8 run to open a 82-69 lead, sparked by Smart’s dead-eye shooting from beyond the arc.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2022
He was a dead-eye long-range shooter in pickup basketball.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 25, 2019
A piece of iron used instead of a chain to confine the dead-eye of the backstay to the after-channel.—Foot-hook or futtock plates.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Maguire meanwhile dead-eyes one straight at the flag.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2021
Jimmy dead-eyes him, says, “Goodbye, Chris,” and then does a full sad limo ride off into the sunset, crying about how he and Chris spent four whole days together, and it was definitely love.
From Time ● Jan. 19, 2015
Lerer dead-eyes him and wants to get on with it.
From Forbes ● Apr. 17, 2013
Even the dead-eyes of the ship, according to Malone, shed tears!
From The Island Queen by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
It’s the first real deviation from the dead-eyed cycle of his daily life since his wife grabbed her car keys and never looked back.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
I see Corey and Hailey and Colton and Hannah…all staring dead-eyed into their laptops, clutching fistfuls of hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Full-back Thomas Ramos has been dead-eyed off the tee.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
Its social accounts were promoting “top sellers” on the platform, with usernames like “Isaris-AI” and “Mikonotai,” who reportedly made tens of thousands of dollars through bulk sales of autogenerated, dead-eyed 3D avatars.
From Slate ● May 16, 2024
Those nieces of hers had probably stuffed those rat-skeletony, dead-eyed puppets right into the trash the first night they’d gotten them.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
