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
She was voted off - and yet another faithful bit the dust.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
He does most of the talking too, telling them stories about different teams that bit the dust over the years.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2022
Price bit the dust, but the others, still around, are no doubt in mourning now.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2018
Undaunted a remnant held on to within two or three hundred yards of Colonel Maxwell's line, where the last of the gallant foemen tumbled and bit the dust.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
