How to Use dead-on in a Sentence

dead-on

adjective

• His eyes meet the camera dead-on.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
• And as dead-on comedies will sometimes do, the movie claimed a piece of reality.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
• However, as scale is increased, the flight speed also increases, which makes dead-on impact tricky.
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2017
• But Charli’s quote has lingered in my head ever since listening to Jessie Ware’s dead-on-arrival sixth record, Superbloom.
  — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
• TikTok sensation Miguel Luciano, known for his dead-on Housewife impressions, will be there to provide an assist.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
• No matter how many times Trump posts about it, passing more voter ID laws and lowering the Senate's voting threshold seem to be dead-on-arrival propositions.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 18 June 2026
• Yet his account is dead-on accurate, and for proof one need only look to the original Progressives, who were open in their disdain of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
• The Synanon Connection With her long coat, oversized glasses and dead-on stare, Toni Colette’s central Wayward character gives off the uncomfortable feeling of a cult leader.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The Synanon Connection With her long coat and oversized glasses, and dead-on stare, Toni Colette’s central Wayward character gives off the uncomfortable feeling of a cult leader.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• So in the unlikely event that there’s a dead-on collision with a large asteroid at the reactor site, the debris of the reactor may be distributed in the dust of the moon, but all those little TRISO particles will hopefully remain intact.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2025
• Nor is he connected to the brooding himbo Ben Reilly, voiced by Andy Samberg in the latter of those films (though the association is amusing considering Samberg once did a dead-on Cage impression on Saturday Night Live).
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 May 2026
• The photos of the actor come a week after director Sam Mendes released the first images of the cast of his upcoming four-part Beatles biopic project, The Beatles — a Four-Film Cinematic Event, with Mescal earning praise for his eerily dead-on take of a young Paul McCartney.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019