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
As the Titanic was going dead slow danger of a collision was soon averted, “but,” as Andrews wrote that evening, “the situation was decidedly unpleasant.”
From Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder by Bullock, Shan F.
Hayar, you mighty chief from 'Rapahoe," shouted a voice, "do yer find this yar town so dead slow as yer did?
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Standish, Burt L.
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