dead-eye
Example Sentences
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Her dead-eye kicking for the posts is a big strength, but that is unlikely to be needed against Scotland given the form of fly-half Zoe Harrison.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
Three days after the Clippers’ dead-eye accuracy against the Lakers marked one extreme — the Clippers’ 63% three-point shooting was their best against the Lakers since 1994 — Sunday’s revealed the other in stark contrast.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2022
As in that game, Boston used a strong rebounding advantage and an occasional dead-eye outside shooting to hold off the Lakers in Game 7.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2022
He was a dead-eye long-range shooter in pickup basketball.
From Golf Digest • Jul. 25, 2019
The act of withdrawing a rope from any block, thimble, dead-eye, &c., through which it had formerly passed.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
