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
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
“The electron storm that’s coming up. Do you know it’s heading straight dead center across the Earth beam? I had just figured that out when that robot dragged me out of my chair.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
