dead time

Example Sentences

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“But it cuts down on the stress. The dead time is actually sitting behind the wheel. I can read, do some work or just relax on the bus. It’s more productive and less frustrating.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023

“What was really removed from the game was that dead time — pitchers walking around the mound, batters fixing their batting gloves, taking extra pitches in the bullpen, walking in from there.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The clock would address baseball’s most infuriating dead time — hitters wandering away from home plate during an at-bat, as though puzzling about Fermat’s Last Theorem.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

Mr Gidney, principal dentist at a practice in Monmouthshire which has 7,000 patients, said the "dead time" was limiting how many non-urgent patients they could see and creating a "bottleneck" in the system.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2021

In the dead time between Saturday night and Sunday morning, she called me.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson