dead heatin a sentence
- Brittain and I finish in a dead heat at about a minute forty—Ellerby beats us by an easy ten seconds—and for the first time I think I might not be there for the final ten; twenty seconds' rest just might not do it.† (source)
- Ten minutes later Seabiscuit finished in a dead heat for first with a horse named Heelfly, who carried fifteen fewer pounds.† (source)
- They covered me with squares of flannel in the dead heat of summer.† (source)
- At the end of three I'm out of gas and running on the simple knowledge that if I give it up to pain and go all out, I'll have a minute to catch up, and I grit my teeth and sprint for the finish, touching a tenth of a second under my standard, in a dead heat with Brittain.† (source)
- The boys huddled themselves together and sought the friendly companionship of the fire, though the dull dead heat of the breathless atmosphere was stifling.† (source)
- A longer race and Menelaos would have passed, to win decisively, and no dead heat.† (source)