bit the dust
Example Sentences
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My own family recently discovered this firsthand when our beleaguered second car, a gas-powered Honda Fit, finally bit the dust.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Price bit the dust, but the others, still around, are no doubt in mourning now.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2018
For today’s man—but not for Today’s Man, which bit the dust in 2003—snug is the mot-du-jour.
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2015
In 2011, True Grit bit the dust, failing to win a single prize despite 10 nominations.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2015
Many of our men bit the dust, but we who remained came to grips with the enemy.
From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by Sellers, William Edward
