goner
Example Sentences
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When a tree has 25 or more exit holes, it’s probably a goner, Durbin said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024
And they have concluded the number, but not the policy itself, is an albatross around their neck - and so it is a goner.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024
Then when the camera lingered on his departure from Dragonstone, until the little boy on his little dragon faded into the night, I was sure he was a goner.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022
The most recent goner, who gives the book its title, was an investigative journalist.
From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2022
Mom said when she saw him like that, she thought, Uh-oh, looks like this one’s a goner, too.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
