dead and gone
Example Sentences
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"We like to think of Joe as not being around rather than being dead and gone."
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2024
“I thought I would be dead and gone because of Covid by 2022,” she said.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
“That’s long dead and gone in my opinion. And it’s buried. And I don’t want to have anything to do with it, to be honest,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021
“When you hear that Ball name, just like you hear the Hiltons and the Rockefellers and all that, when I’m dead and gone, you going to remember that Ball name,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
“But Mama,” I said, “she couldn’t have eaten pea vine. The pea vine is all dead and gone this time of year.”
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
