dead spot

Example Sentences

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Living in a mobile dead spot has one upside, according to Raeder, who runs a small museum dedicated to East German army radio technology: the lack of infrastructure means housing is affordable.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2020

At the same time, it has urged studios to join in creating event films for adults, especially for release in a September-October period that had previously been a dead spot, short on fantasy blockbusters.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2015

A dead spot having zero speed is created there.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

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

I thought of the "dead spot" I had first heard about on the newscast the night before, and how it was steadily growing.

From Call Him Savage by Pollard, John