bite the dust
Example Sentences
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Should City’s woes continue, or put another way should Guardiola persist in playing a high defensive line with Nicolás Otamendi at the heart of it, another pre-season theory will soon bite the dust.
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2019
We don’t see Tyene bite the dust on-screen, but I can’t imagine Benioff and Weiss suddenly deciding she’s worth the narrative investment to have her wriggle out of this.
From The Verge • Jul. 31, 2017
I also suspect “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is going to bite the dust this year; the topicality of its red-hot first season just isn’t there.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2017
That’s the sickening thud Becca Pizzi says runners make when they’re out training for the Boston Marathon and bite the dust.
From Washington Times • Mar. 3, 2015
Pyrocles, who, dressed as a woman, cannot take part in the fighting, has the mortification of seeing the champion of Philoclea bite the dust and give up her portrait.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
