dead and gone
Example Sentences
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"We like to think of Joe as not being around rather than being dead and gone."
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2024
“Forty years in jail? I might be dead and gone when he gets out.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022
“I thought I would be dead and gone because of Covid by 2022,” she said.
From New York Times • May 9, 2022
“That’s long dead and gone in my opinion. And it’s buried. And I don’t want to have anything to do with it, to be honest,” he said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
But there would not be much joy in returning from a space voyage a few years older to find that everyone you had left behind was dead and gone thousands of years ago.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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