How to Use smack-dab in a Sentence

smack-dab

adverb
  • And Illinois is smack-dab in the middle of the largest market in the world.
    — Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • No, the medical bed, that monstrosity smack-dab in the middle of her bedroom, had sealed her fate.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • During opposition, Earth lies smack-dab between the planet and the sun.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Li grew up in Millbrae, smack-dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay area.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The route traces nearly 18 miles of the Lakefront Trail—all of them scenic—with the fountain smack-dab in the middle.
    — Midwest Living, 12 June 2026
  • The deer had done a can-opener off the top of the 16-foot embankment and landed smack-dab on top of my windshield, destroying it.
    — Cheyne Matzenbacher, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Atherton, for example, maintained its estate-style residential zoning for decades, smack-dab in the middle of a job-rich area.
    — Nicholas J. Marantz, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
  • Terrāi, an expansive restaurant smack-dab in the middle of Hyderabad’s modern IT hub, hopes to change that.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Katharine's first professional home was the third floor of Building 5, a seven-story brick edifice lined with wide windows smack-dab in the middle of the GE factory.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The president is set to give an address updating Americans on the Iran war on the evening of April 1, right smack-dab in the middle of primetime TV.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Otis, Kansas, is almost smack-dab in the middle of the Sunflower State, a community of about 280 people named after the son of the man who founded the town in 1886.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Two plays later, in that same game, safeties Hufanga and Brandon Jones ran smack-dab into each other and dropped another easy would-be interception from New York quarterback Jaxson Dart.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
  • The four-level single-family is smack-dab in the heart of Huron Village, surrounded by beloved neighborhood shops and restaurants and a stone’s throw from Danehy Park, Fresh Pond, and the Charles River.
    — Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • An African nation bounded by the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to its north has prospered a kinship in a town located in a state literally smack-dab in the middle of America — a town whose new college football stadium is accented by light towers made to represent wheat.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026

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