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
Actually, we walked on—through the "Valley of Death"—past the spot where the brave Bridges bit the dust, to the Headquarters of the 4th Australian Infantry Brigade.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
