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

There are objects from the 1920s and also some as recent as the 1990s, well after the “Surrealist movement” had bit the dust.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

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

Was I not struck down until I bit the dust, and you never held out a hand to help me?

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard