How to Use dead center in a Sentence

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  • 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
  • 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 lone mistake: a 2-0 slider that Chris Taylor crushed out to dead center with a man on in the third.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
  • The movement is located in the dead center of the lake—too far away to see clearly.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Giménez drilled a 3-2 sinker to dead center field for his fifth home run, giving the Guardians infielder 23 RBI.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 30 May 2022
  • After pruning the plant down to about 6 inches, dig out the entire clump and discard the dead center.
    Sunset Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • In the sixth, Kaprielian was tagged by outfielder Jose Siri for a three-run homer to dead center to shrink Oakland’s lead to one.
    Sam Warren, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 June 2023
  • Oklahoma blocked a Texas field goal in triple overtime, and the Sooners then missed one from dead center to send us to a fourth OT.
    Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The Reds scored two runs in the first two innings against Corbin, which included a 432-foot homer to dead center from Stuart Fairchild.
    The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The tachometer is dead center, a tell on the 911's priorities.
    Jeffrey G. Russell, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
  • The Dons pitcher hung a slider with two strikes that Adamski pummeled to dead center.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • Donaldson's traveled 407 feet to dead center, but Baddoo snagged it just short of the wall.
    Christina Long, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • Gale Crater, home to the Curiosity rover, is dead center in this image.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2014
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Playoff wrecking ball Randy Arozarena made Cora pay, doubling to dead center field to tie the score.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • With one out, Adam Duvall offered a reminder of his game-changing power, blasting a slider in the heart of the zone for a 426-foot homer that sailed well over the fence in dead center.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • Steven Duggar was in center and turned in a nice all-around effort, throwing out a runner at third and homering to dead center.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Bernie Sanders, its leader, would be on the center-left in England; in the dead center in Scandinavia; and on the center-right in France (where a real far left does exist).
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But in the sixth, the Marlins eked out another run, and in the seventh, pinch-hitter Jorge Soler whapped a two-out, two-run homer to dead center to put Miami ahead.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But in the sixth, the Marlins eked out another run, and in the seventh, pinch-hitter Jorge Soler whapped a two-out, two-run homer to dead center to put Miami ahead.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But Pastrnak roams all over, and likes to fire primarily from his sweet spot, dead center in the left wing faceoff circle.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Gordon crushed the offering to dead center, tying the game, which Kansas City won in extra innings on its way to the club's first championship in 30 years.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Acuña responded four pitches later with a rocket to dead center for a solo home run.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 27 June 2021
  • Jake Fraley, who crushed a two-run homer to dead center in the third inning, was hit by a pitch following Stephenson’s seventh-inning double.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Jake Fraley, who crushed a two-run homer to dead center in the third inning, was hit by a pitch following Stephenson’s seventh-inning double.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023

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