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
The Romans who crucified my brother are already dead and gone.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
Yesterday is dead and gone, as songwriter Kris Kristofferson put it.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
“When you hear that Ball name, just like you hear the Hiltons and the Rockefellers and all that, when I’m dead and gone, you going to remember that Ball name,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
I talked and thought about Mr. Rice as though he were dead and gone forever.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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