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
She was voted off - and yet another faithful bit the dust.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
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
Many an active school-boy there has more than once temporarily bit the dust.
From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by Blaikie, William Garden
