six feet under

Example Sentences

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Why losing can happen: For the Chargers, Denver’s home stadium is less mile high and more six feet under.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Here in the U.S., fewer and fewer of us are choosing to spend our afterlife six feet under.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

If I were a jerk, my advice would be to suck it up because the guy is 100 years old and he may be six feet under by the time this column is published.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2020

Michigan took Notre Dame's season and buried it six feet under.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 28, 2019

Bluford Jackson was six feet under, and the camping trip he planned was deader than him.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns