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
“Forty years in jail? I might be dead and gone when he gets out.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022
Yesterday is dead and gone, as songwriter Kris Kristofferson put it.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022
It's "The West Wing" itself that's striving to feel vital again, in an age when its fantasy version of D.C. politics is dead and gone.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2020
Daddy’s aunt Rose and the rest of his family all lived up north, and Mama’s people were dead and gone long before Ophie had been born.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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