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
If you teach somebody something, whoever they teach, even when you’re dead and gone, you’re constantly getting blessings even when you’re in the grave.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023
“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
It's "The West Wing" itself that's striving to feel vital again, in an age when its fantasy version of D.C. politics is dead and gone.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2020
While still alive they did divide Their favorites from the throng, Yet how to pick the worthy ones When they were dead and gone?
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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