How to Use dead center in a Sentence

dead center

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  • My seat is set dead center, close to the edge of that tape.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Collins crushed a home run to dead center to start the eighth inning and tie the game.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2026
  • These flags place their square of 50 stars dead center within the stripes.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
  • On the main floor, guests can take advantage of the kitchen, which sits in the dead center of the home.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Instead, they were walked to the best seats in the house, ten rows up, dead center, a perfect view.
    SELF, 11 June 2024
  • Or Gavin Sheets’ tying, full-count, pinch hit home run to dead center.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The movement is located in the dead center of the lake—too far away to see clearly.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Ariel Redmond leads the game off with a homer to dead center for Houston.
    Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Story got things started by cranking a three-run home run to dead center field in the bottom of the first.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
  • His homer, a blast to dead center, came with one out in the ninth inning and brought the Beavers to within one run.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The working scoreboard in dead center field showed the game’s line score, along with the batter’s count and the number of outs.
    Lukas Weese, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • There’s also an ice cream parlor that’s well situated in dead center.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 16 Mar. 2026
  • After pruning the plant down to about 6 inches, dig out the entire clump and discard the dead center.
    Sunset Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • The clouds of gas and dust surround the supermassive black hole at the galactic dead center.
    Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The Dons pitcher hung a slider with two strikes that Adamski pummeled to dead center.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • Pack glass dead center in your suitcase, surrounded by clothes on all sides, with no hard objects adjacent.
    Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026
  • Gale Crater, home to the Curiosity rover, is dead center in this image.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2014
  • Olive steers Ortiz and I from the wings of stage right, through near-pitch darkness, to a spot dead center against the back wall.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Within his first two swings during live batting practice, Ballesteros drove a home run to dead center field.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In between, Mountcastle launched a game-tying home run to dead center field on a curveball that caught too much plate.
    Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2021
  • Then in the second inning, Schwarber came up again and drilled an 0-2 pitch to dead center field for a three-run homer.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
  • Jackson hustles to his seat in the audience, dead center, behind the main cameras as the chat begins.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Zola dips and swerves and wavers and spins with a punishing force akin to a vomit comet — with Zola dead center.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2021
  • Gavin Sheets got the White Sox on the board with a solo home run to dead center field in the second inning.
    Matt Young, Chron, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The tachometer is dead center, a tell on the 911's priorities.
    Jeffrey G. Russell, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
  • This is the display in track mode, where the most important information is your engine rpm (up top) and the gear (dead center).
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
  • For one thing, the chance that impacts will hit both of the largest peaks in the area—and hit them dead center—seems extraordinarily remote.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Donaldson's traveled 407 feet to dead center, but Baddoo snagged it just short of the wall.
    Christina Long, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • The ball traveled 417 feet to dead center against Blue Jays starter Chris Bassitt.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Each of the five criteria are listed out on a judging tablet and underneath each one is a slider, which is set to dead center to start the battle.
    Dvora Meyers, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024

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