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

But the Dodgers needed just four batters to match that with Andy Pages belting a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, to dead center in the bottom of the inning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025

"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

Nor was it different for do-everything option Dylan Moore, who added a two-run shot to dead center in the seventh, after a scintillating spring.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2024

Gogol goes for runs around the lake with Gerald, arduous laps along steep hilly dirt roads, so infrequently traveled that they can occupy the dead center.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri