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
If you teach somebody something, whoever they teach, even when you’re dead and gone, you’re constantly getting blessings even when you’re in the grave.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023
“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
Then again, television has always preserved what’s dead and gone.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2020
My great-aunt Cecile's all the time saying dead don't have to mean dead and gone, and I like to believe that.
From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson
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