dead time
Example Sentences
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The dog days of summer are also a historically dead time in Hollywood, when power brokers take lengthy vacations and the pace of deal-making stalls.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 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
