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
A thin, swirling fog lay soggily upon the water and the big steamer went dead slow upon her course, sending dismal and depressing blasts from her horn from time to time.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Harry Bates
She was riding head to wind, and apparently steaming ahead dead slow, or, at all events, merely at a speed sufficient to give her steerage-way.
From With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure by Edward S. Hodgson
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