far-gone

Example Sentences

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She has walked too many miles in the halls of hospitals visiting too many far-gone patients and seeing too many medical mistakes to go along with conventional thinking.

From Washington Post

Whether because he can’t, or he won’t, take command of his muscles, Quinn is now a far-gone invalid, his life shrunk to the wretched walls of a V.A. hospital, his only escape drugs, equally desperate women and — occasionally — curious beams of sunlight that remind him of “another world.”

From New York Times

“The carcass was pretty rotten when it came to shore — it had been floating for a number of days — and with really far-gone carcasses it’s hard for us to get information,” he said.

From New York Times

Richard Noble knows all about de Chasseloup-Laubat and others — mostly Britons and Americans, just about all of them far-gone mavericks — who have followed in the quixotic and sometimes deadly annals of the world land speed record.

From New York Times

Dr. Soung extracted Ms. Caseres’s two abscessed teeth at once, because a far-gone infection could spread to the jaw or even throughout the body.

From New York Times