bit the dust
Example Sentences
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My own family recently discovered this firsthand when our beleaguered second car, a gas-powered Honda Fit, finally bit the dust.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“Ohhhhhhh!” arose like a chorus from the photographers and others assembled backstage at the Grammys as the trophy bit the dust, according to a video posted by Variety.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2022
Your massive down payment will lower your payments so they’re much more favorable than they would be if your vehicle bit the dust unexpectedly and you hadn’t been saving.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2022
Not through any fault of my own, they all just bit the dust one after another.
From BBC • May 10, 2020
All Rome was at his back, cheering him on, and every time his hen-coop slat thumped that shredded old poplar gate-post some proud son of Tuscany bit the dust.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
