dead slow
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The ComPilots provide the latest autopilot technology, including automatic bowthruster assist for dead slow or station keeping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their program is: full speed ahead in economics and education, dead slow in politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Snow squalls and heavy seas made visibility poor and forced Endurance to creep forward with the engines dead slow as it headed into Stromness Bay.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The next three days were something to remember, and we spent most of them and the corresponding nights either hove to or going dead slow.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram
The engines were working dead slow, while a screen of sacks surrounded the funnel, hiding any sparks which might have betrayed the presence of the launch.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
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