Her dead pan at the punchline left the audience unsure whether she was joking.

He tried to dead pan his joke, but his smile gave him away.

His dead-pan response to the surprising news sent the room into nervous laughter.

His dead pan remark left the audience unsure whether he was joking.

They dead-drop the envelope behind the statue at midnight.

Some copyeditors list dead-ringer as an alternative form of the expression.

The sculpture was installed at the dead-center of the plaza.

The old hunter earned a fearsome reputation as a dead-eye on the mountain trails.

The dead-eye marksman never missed a target during the training exercise.

The boutique cleared out a corner of the backroom filled with dead stock to make space for the new collection.