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

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

The crowd in the harbour blended into a close, dark and dead spot, faceless, formless, motionless.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman