Examples of smack-dab in a Sentence
made reservations at a restaurant that's smack-dab in the center of town
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The route traces nearly 18 miles of the Lakefront Trail—all of them scenic—with the fountain smack-dab in the middle.
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Midwest Living, 12 June 2026
Two plays later, in that same game, safeties Hufanga and Brandon Jones ran smack-dab into each other and dropped another easy would-be interception from New York quarterback Jaxson Dart.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
The president is set to give an address updating Americans on the Iran war on the evening of April 1, right smack-dab in the middle of primetime TV.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
And Illinois is smack-dab in the middle of the largest market in the world.
—Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
Katharine's first professional home was the third floor of Building 5, a seven-story brick edifice lined with wide windows smack-dab in the middle of the GE factory.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Li grew up in Millbrae, smack-dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay area.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2026
The deer had done a can-opener off the top of the 16-foot embankment and landed smack-dab on top of my windshield, destroying it.
—Cheyne Matzenbacher, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
Otis, Kansas, is almost smack-dab in the middle of the Sunflower State, a community of about 280 people named after the son of the man who founded the town in 1886.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
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Midwest Living, 12 June 2026
Two plays later, in that same game, safeties Hufanga and Brandon Jones ran smack-dab into each other and dropped another easy would-be interception from New York quarterback Jaxson Dart.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
The president is set to give an address updating Americans on the Iran war on the evening of April 1, right smack-dab in the middle of primetime TV.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
And Illinois is smack-dab in the middle of the largest market in the world.
—Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
Katharine's first professional home was the third floor of Building 5, a seven-story brick edifice lined with wide windows smack-dab in the middle of the GE factory.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Li grew up in Millbrae, smack-dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay area.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2026
The deer had done a can-opener off the top of the 16-foot embankment and landed smack-dab on top of my windshield, destroying it.
—Cheyne Matzenbacher, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
Otis, Kansas, is almost smack-dab in the middle of the Sunflower State, a community of about 280 people named after the son of the man who founded the town in 1886.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Smack-dab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smack-dab. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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