dead center

idiom

: in the exact center

She hung the picture dead center on the wall.

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Dom Smith cut the deficit to four with his solo home run to dead center field in the bottom of the sixth, and in the top of the seventh Chase Anderson flirted with disaster by loading the bases with one out, only to then strike out Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz to escape unscathed. —

Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 May 2024 If there was a Venn diagram of Sicilian and Philly pop culture, Talia Shire would be dead center. —

Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024 There was far less doubt on Mountcastle’s second, a fourth-inning drive well over the 410-foot marker in almost dead center that finished the scoring for both teams. —

Ian Nicholas Quillen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for dead center