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
“I thought I would be dead and gone because of Covid by 2022,” she said.
From New York Times • May 9, 2022
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
While still alive they did divide Their favorites from the throng, Yet how to pick the worthy ones When they were dead and gone?
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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