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

And the world grew dark before his eyes, and he fell forward like a tower and bit the dust and his armor clanked about him.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried