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
The Romans who crucified my brother are already dead and gone.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024
“That’s long dead and gone in my opinion,” Spencer said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
“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
And the pikes sit by the thousands, rusting now in a Richmond warehouse because Jackson is dead and gone to glory.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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