dead spot

Example Sentences

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But Bevacqua’s favorite portable accessories may be his pots of bulbs, including the Casablanca lilies he will enjoy on the terrace next summer or plug into a dead spot in a border.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2022

A dead spot having zero speed is created there.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Elle Macpherson, the show’s host, is the only dead spot, but she isn’t around much.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2012

But moving speech processing to the cloud means that if the server crashes, or if the phone is in a dead spot, voice commands stop working.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 4, 2011

The plane landed us at the edge of the newly set "dead spot" and the five of us forced our way through the forest until we reached the clearing where the spaceship still crouched.

From Call Him Savage by Pollard, John