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

"RoboCop" endures and we are still talking about it almost four decades later because of the social and political issues it confronted, right there, dead center in the film.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

Sophomore Jordan Woolery, who struck out with the bases loaded in the second inning, didn’t miss in the fifth, delivering a three-run homer to dead center field.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

Planted dead center on the stage in “This House Is Not a Home,” a slippery, ever-shifting work by Nile Harris, is a house — a bounce house.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2024

And suddenly the kid was hugging him, squeezing with a power you never suspected was in that little body, unless you had seen him pole a baseball almost to the trees in dead center field.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli