Examples of dead ahead in a Sentence
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Its horn curves above its head like a long crescent moon, and below it a minute eye—no bigger than perhaps a millimetre or two—stares dead ahead.
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Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
An angry answer to this challenge came immediately, dead ahead, another 75 yards off, Banton later estimated.
—Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
In most respects, this all-new chassis forges dead ahead toward 1985, when all cars big and small must do their part toward a fleet fuel-economy average of 27.5 mpg.
—Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
Today’s job numbers are incongruous with fears that recession is dead ahead.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 8 July 2022
His staggeringly beautiful painting of a young woman, wife of a London courtier, sits dead ahead on the entry wall.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
And in a news business that is fragmented and hyperpartisan, a similar fiasco may lie dead ahead.
—New York Times, 15 May 2021
The primary and secondary controls are beyond criticism, everything important concentrated on the steering wheel or within easy reach, with a big tachometer dead ahead and of course those LEDs along the top of the steering wheel to guide upshifts without flicking eyes down to the tach.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
Keep your eyes and head dead ahead.
—Outside Online, 27 Oct. 2020
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Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
An angry answer to this challenge came immediately, dead ahead, another 75 yards off, Banton later estimated.
—Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
In most respects, this all-new chassis forges dead ahead toward 1985, when all cars big and small must do their part toward a fleet fuel-economy average of 27.5 mpg.
—Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
Today’s job numbers are incongruous with fears that recession is dead ahead.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 8 July 2022
His staggeringly beautiful painting of a young woman, wife of a London courtier, sits dead ahead on the entry wall.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
And in a news business that is fragmented and hyperpartisan, a similar fiasco may lie dead ahead.
—New York Times, 15 May 2021
The primary and secondary controls are beyond criticism, everything important concentrated on the steering wheel or within easy reach, with a big tachometer dead ahead and of course those LEDs along the top of the steering wheel to guide upshifts without flicking eyes down to the tach.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
Keep your eyes and head dead ahead.
—Outside Online, 27 Oct. 2020
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“Dead ahead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dead%20ahead. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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