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

So, imagine me standing on top of a soapbox, dead center in the middle of a crowd of about 1,000 people, yelling at the top of my lungs, "All books are not created equal!"

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

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

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