How To Use Gone In A Sentence

That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
Davis looked up and gave a signal of approval, and after a quick bow, the pair of messengers was gone.
There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.

It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
Only a few minutes had gone when the Welshman flung in an inviting right-foot cross to the back post.
He would never have gone to the Union while his wife was alive: she said it was "plebby. The Key to Rebecca
Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno. Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help!
Less than a minute later he had gone past the courts, down a stairwell and opened the fire door.
Gone are the spelling rules that bedeviled many students' days.
The social transition has gone wrong: it is majoritarian absolutism.
Like all those who have gone before us, may the revelation of Christ in our hearts compel us to lay down our lives before him in worship and adoration.
They've deliberately gone against my wishes and sold the apartment.
Sjogren's syndrome "targets and destroys over time the exocrine glands responsible for tear production and saliva -- and is characterized by dryness of the mouth and eyes," said Dr. Michael Belmont, an associate professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at NYU Langone Medical Center and medical director for Hospital for Joint Diseases. Why Sjogren's syndrome caused Williams to quit U.S. open
Get a dog and - doggone it - there goes the garden.
The used-car business in the city has just gone upmarket.
Other specialties have undergone relative declines such as orthopedics safer cars and fewer smashed bones. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Another Idea
This is the very definition of obstructionism: To delay a foregone conclusion for the sake of a petty protest.
The tuck shop has gone and sweets are not available on site. Times, Sunday Times
Long gone are the days when Chairman Mao was idolised by radicals (and even respected by some mainstream academics) on American university campuses.
But decades of research have gone by and scientists remain incapable of creating a sustainable fusion reaction that could be used to create reliable power.
Sifting through the reports logged in the last couple of weeks, he came across a tale that had previously gone unread. EVERVILLE
His songs had gone from sublime to bizarre, compounded by his friendship with oddball lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
She said two of the remaining three, unsighted threatened species had not been spotted since 1965 while the other had gone undetected since 1891.
Most of the hard work was done by women, since many of the men had gone off to find employment.
When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned.
The jockey was said to have undergone lessons in etiquette; the horse had not, though it acquitted itself extremely well. Times, Sunday Times
We have also seen that these ideas have not gone unchallenged. Victimology - the victim and the criminal justice process
He had previously undergone insertion of a gold weight into the left upper eyelid.
They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
Month after month our patience has gone unrewarded until the latest edition of the magazine, when we've managed to bag a whopper.
If that had gone in the game would have taken on a different complexion. The Sun
The buildings are long gone, but some foundations are still there, as well as the nearby mill stream and part of a dam and sluiceway.
I'm sorry to be such a marplot, but you can take it out in quizzing me after I'm gone. Rose in Bloom
If we had not gone, the dismantling of apartheid would have taken 25 years more. Times, Sunday Times
The nobles of his court believed he had simply gone away from them for a time to meditate. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue. Times, Sunday Times
But wait, that bugger is gone already, Too bad, so sad. The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
Every Est é e Lauder formula has undergone stringent evaluation for ingredient integrity, non - irritancy and overall efficacy.
After she'd gone he had drawn up a scorecard, ranging her qualities on one side - her intellectual gifts and vivid, racy conversation - and on the other all the vicious things she'd said.
So take care of them while they are there and avoid the sorrow and regret you will have when they are gone. The Sun
'I'll run to them immediately,' cried she, 'for my half guinea is in an agony to be gone!' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The Russians would take a small slice at a time via dubious but not too provocative measures until the whole salami is gone. Archive 2008-06-01
Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
It was explained to me that because I was far-gone I would have to give birth by being induced into labour.
The power has gone out and even when it's on there appear to be beefy dips and surges on the line - so large in fact that one particular voltage spike took out my TV in an impressive cloud of smoke.
He's gone straight to the top, the lucky bastard.
My children have gone beyond my power.
Until the carabiner pulled tight on the rigging, it seemed from the helicopter that he'd gone over in a suicide dive. MINUTES TO BURN
Like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, lupus is a disease of the immune system gone awry.
An inquest heard that the fire started after friends of Mr Wright lit candles in his flat while he had gone out drinking with a friend.
Suddenly the door opened and a man burst in exclaiming: ‘Trescothick's gone first ball!’
My favourite character was Pedro, Napoleon's Hispanic friend, whose quiet manner and woebegone expression were constant throughout the film.
I wrote a long paper last fall which you can find here in which I make out Gore as an epigone of Heidegger. Enowning
I've never paid a dime for any tech show I've gone to, nor would I.
Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
Not only does this process have much capital behind it - fed by the deep-pocket venture capital organizations of Silicon Valley an hour to the south - but it has its epigones in the press.
One of the "brightest minds" in his class, he was one of the laziest; one of the quickest and most agile when aroused, he was one of the torpids as a rule: One of the kind who should have "gone in for honors," as the faculty said, he came nearer going out for devilment. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
Most of the frescoes on the ceiling are gone, but there are ornate chandeliers.
When Wood returned to the truck parked on Panorama Drive, her bike was gone along with two others belonging to friends visiting from Washing-ton state.
The system of education and discipline pursued has undergone some modifications in recent years -- notably during the provostship of the Rev. Francis Hodgson; but radical defects are still alleged against it. The Grand Old Man
She's gone to collect her son from school.
Every splash of bright colour has gone back into a drawer not to be glimpsed again until next spring.
One man had gone bald over business pressures. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
But look, when are we going to say that things that have gone on decades ago, or 10 years or more ago, should always be dredged up, just because there might be some political advantage to dredging it up?
Sales of soap products have gone up from £76m in 1981 to £173m 20 years later while sales of baby wipes have nearly tripled in the last 15 years.
Gone are the days when he could read five books and file away their contents in his brain.
Many lenders have gone further than required and been enforcing more strict and intrusive criteria. Times, Sunday Times
Although sequence similarities among some of the rod and hook proteins were noted in early analyses 24, the degree of paralogy for the ancestral set of flagellar genes, and its implications for the origins of the bacterial flagellum, have gone unrecognized. Update on PNAS flagellum paper - The Panda's Thumb
Let's face it, women have gone to great lengths over the centuries, to keep their beauty techniques under wraps.
She had been gone about an hour, when the sky suddenly darkened, the wind rose and the thunder rolled in prelude to the storm. The Hidden Hand
Firemen came in looking for images of their mates who had gone into the blazing buildings.
The next morning, I woke up in an alley off Rosedale, my shoes, wallet and cummerbund gone, and I had to call the old man collect to come fetch me. Aforementioned
The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines. The War in the Air
The blocks are covered in dense comic art that reminds me of the Sergio Argones marginalia in MAD Magazine -- a million zillion sight gags on the theme of "Oh God the baby is coming to destroy us all! Boing Boing
And when you do that, you had doggone well better win.
The man who's responsible for two of the most black-hearted exposés on psychological cruelty hadn't gone soft - just cheeky and satirical.
On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet. The U-boat hunters
If we'd gone much further it would have been dark before we finished all this rigmarole.
And about 5 o'clock in the eavning we could see the Yankees a marchen up on the other side of the river by regiments and most all went back from on this Side of the river and General Earley thought that they was all a going back and taken all of his men but a Louisiana Bregaid and started to reinforce General Lea And about the time we had gone 6 miles they come The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,
One man had gone bald over business pressures. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
As someone standing on the doorstep looking for a good reason to enter the 'club', swatter is now gone. Sound Politics: King County GOP election results
Feeling restless with our two boys grown and gone from home, I obtained a teaching position at Fujian Teachers University in Fuzhou, The Peoples Republic of China. THE WAY IT WAS
There is serious reason to believe, though the details cannot be gone into here, that the lorum is represented by the "armill", though this is now a sort of stole which two or three centuries back was tied at the elbows. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. RVM
Even as a child I had heard what a monadnock was - a huge lump of rock rising above rolling forests, a big hunk scraped bare but still left after the icecap had gone back.
Whilst trying to make the melodies inaccessible, these cheeky tykes from Ozzy's old home city have only gone and made them all the more appealing.
After a while, the freshness is gone, and it doesn't take long for the proceedings to become dull and leaden.
Aqui - la, al modo de Cefari antichi, e era groffo di carati venti di fine ero a pa - ragone. Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italic
Some English roses from the FA would not have gone amiss. Times, Sunday Times
The crowds had all gone home and the street was quiet once more.
Surely, days of giggling about drunken escapades were long gone, too?
This exciting partnership also has its roots in both parties respect for the environment - the "cloverleaf" course was designed to minimize impact on the environment while Thule has gone so far as adding solar panels to the roof of its Seymour, Connecticut manufacturing and office facility that will offset 26\% of the total energy used. Bike Magazine - Most Recent
Pieces-of-Eight and shouting out "yarr, matey!" may have gone the way of the Dodo, but piracy is still a real threat on the world's seas. Archive 2008-03-01
Trying to determine where the bulk of investors' money has gone is the primary goal of the bankruptcy court.
No other athlete in Britain has undergone such an exhaustive, globetrotting search for success. Times, Sunday Times
See you that fashion that wear a woebegone wording, how, primp as my boyfriend, so fold you old your good ego?
The two guys weren't there and had apparently gone out somewhere for lunch.
The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.
This phenomenon has gone largely unremarked upon by US military and civilian officials.
Now General Electric have gone one better than nature and made a diamond purer than the best quality natural diamonds.
But she said: ‘I had gone to celebrate a friend's birthday and all of a sudden was drawn into some depraved sex show.’
The accolade has not gone to one of the big-name hotels but to a former Manchester couple who have converted a rundown B&B into a set of luxury self-catering apartments.
These are tears of sorrow that it has come to this, that the country’s matriarch is gone, and no one looms bright over the horizon to serve as the country’s guardian angel. Global Voices in English » Philippines: People mourn death of Corazon Aquino
Believing that my wallet was gone forever, I started calling my bank and credit card companies, but the front desk clerk called my room, saying, “A cabdriver is in the lobby with your wallet.” A wayward wallet returns
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
And Garver used "doggone" when quoted after he screwed up his finance report. Doggone it
The economy has gone off the boil.
Thanks to derationing and the free market the price of tea has now gone down to 85 guineas a quarter.
Try reading the sentences without those phrases and it will be obvious where we have gone wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Mummy, there's something wrong with Mary. Her face has gone all funny.
What is so alarming about the commissioner's report is the revelation that so many relatively minor inroads on civil liberties have gone unremarked and unnoticed.
Long gone are the days of convertible cars being expensive trinkets owned by drivers with designer sunglasses and fur coats. Times, Sunday Times
I yelled, but he was gone, the doors swinging shut behind him.
Nay, I know that you shall not find him in Mansoul, for he is departed and gone; yea, and gone for the faults of the elders, and for that they rewarded his grace with unsufferable unkindness. The Holy War
When she was gone—on the way out, she said, "G'nighty"—I pulled my toothbrush and toothpaste from my own bucket.
I've gone over the problem several times, but I can't think of a solution.
Within hours, realising that he may have gone too far, the victim handed himself in.
The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
Gone are the days when the neighborhood was a mixture of different facades and you could tell one friend's house from another.
The board of trustees approached him and asked where it had gone. The Sun
The days when you could just hoof the ball up to a striker have long since gone; even Wimbledon don't play by these tactics any more.
The last time I'd been in Hoch, ironically enough, we had dropped acid and gone to a showing of Fantasia.
Her family thought she had gone to college and died when the building collapsed in the quake. The Sun
Back beyond even its immediate pre-modern period – what you might call The Andy Gray Years, the dolly bird years – football has always been a sweat-caked man-hole of a place, a realm where men have gone to mope and grizzle and rage and emote a kind of cheek-stinging eau de sexism. Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay
One resident who couldn't take it any longer has gone to stay with family in Scotland.
She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.
Usually they are painless and only cause lameness under certain conditions, as when they begin to develop themselves under the stimulus of inflammatory action, or when large enough to interfere with the functions of the tendons, or again when they have undergone certain pathological changes, such as calcification, which is among their tendencies. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
In some ways this program improves on what has gone before.
And even those who have gone through the figures with a fine fiscal toothcomb are still unsure that they can work out how it will all work.
It cannot have gone unnoticed that our global power has waned in tandem with the waning of our pants. Times, Sunday Times
When they were gone, she went to the oven for a dish of cannelloni which was warming there. BLACK EAGLES
The swelling in his face is nearly gone and he's much more alert and active, which is really encouraging.
I suppose the major reason I’m feeling so jaded is that the mystery has gone out of wine for me. Rants
For how are we to bring in the corn harvest with all those strong hands and strong arms gone?
In a few months Gome has gone from an example of extraordinary success, as it served China's pent-up consumer demand, to an example of the murky and fragile state of Chinese business.
Nay, they might have been venturesome and gone down by ladders, same as the old ones used to be from sollar to sollar. Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea
I'd like a few questions to be answered before all the hurt has gone but time is a healer. The Sun
All the other guests had gone home, but Cage lingered around as if she wanted to talk to me.
Shrobing, begone: the influencers' latest styling trick is wearing your jumper as a scarf. Times, Sunday Times
Thousands of cuneiform tablets and ancient Christian, Muslim and Jewish manuscripts are gone.
The British fleet is now long gone from Malta: in 1979, H.M.S. London sailed out of Valletta harbour and the link between the Royal Navy and Malta came to an end.
I know the west coasters want to keep everyone out of the area except themselves, but I had hoped we had gone beyond the little Scotlander idea.
He is looking for me and when he finds me he is going to feed me rice and gone off fish till I die as he knows I have not pooed in a week because he read my dead end blog.
Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors. Cutter's Way is a cinematic masterpiece
Leaning back into the car at one point to right the passenger seat, I got comprehensively chinned by the headrest and would probably have gone down if the dashboard had not broken my fall.
Shed never been what you might call svelte, but then she had left town and gone to live in Baltimore, and by the time she came back shed piled on the pounds. The Lovers
Airs of bygone times accompany farandoles around the flames over which the boldest leap with a single bound.
He's gone stark raving mad.
The early morning sound of the bell reminds you of the ice-cream wallah of a bygone era.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Ronald Reagan
Tunisia put the ball in Spain's net, but the whistle had long since gone for offside.
If you wink enough nobody will notice your answerless gestures, dog-gone-it! Beat 360° 10/3/08
Outside the main gate were a few students with woebegone faces, for they had been unable to produce their identity cards and had therefore been denied entry.
More importantly, less than a quarter of that bill has gone on purpose-built venues such as the Bird's Nest stadium.
The donkeys and horses were gone, and a cluster of damaged buggies stood by the street corner, like unwashed dishes in a sink. Times, Sunday Times
A great many women have gone on record saying that they find him utterly adorable and wouldn't, as the saying goes, kick him out of bed, whether he turned up for the event wearing boxer shorts or a flowing beribboned peignoir.
Camera phones have gone from 0.3 megapixels to 1 megapixel, and very soon, 2 or 3 megapixel versions.
But the song longs for the old intoxication; he misses “drinking that sweet wine,” and the song had a gospelly buildup as he sang about getting “so high in the days gone by.” SXSW: Drinking Songs From Van Morrison - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
All the other campers were gone to either river raft or kayak, and the campground was totally quiet, all you could hear were the crickets and an occasional moo from a cow.
And whether you visit Nadine Dorries MP's blog of wanton barminess here or otherwise here where "here" and "here" are at one and the some place you will find that her parliamentary blogcullis is gone. The Dorries Sensation: Gazillion Hits, Official
The white and green" the man by the overhang right there " he's gone now " lancers " those are the ones from Sturinn " they are on the south hills. The Spellsong War
The days are gone when I am going to get nervous about games or worry about whether or not I play well.
Nurse Debbie McCall has gone back to the job she loves after taking a career break of 18 years.
The possibility that this scrappy specimen has also undergone very significant deformation should be considered.
All the floorboards, bannisters and doors were missing, the electricity, gas and water pipes were all gone, the ceilings had collapsed and there were two gaping holes in the roof. Life in a Victorian terrace
Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
Now a ballet company has gone one better - showing off dance moves on an airport's moving walkway. Times, Sunday Times
It's possible the court will find that this time the gerrymanderers in North Carolina have simply gone too far.
But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot. Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price
How had she gone from discussing the characters in the book she was reading to Archie's description of a mooring hitch?
The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
But the stiff-necked jerk never called, and cricket has gone doolally as a result.
The New Yorker wondered why they had not gone for broke, naming these two universitium and offium so as to reserve berkelium and californium for the next two elements.
Gone was the era of gunboat diplomacy, gone the treaty port concessions, gone the specially conceded naval bases, the military missions, the ill-disguised interference in Chinese affairs.
The almost rural surroundings change before you know it and you are soon in the midst of a much older town on a road gone narrow as you pass through Ulsoor with its temples, shops that sell puja essentials, books, clothes and Primus stoves.
It was jelly-like and it stunk horribly, like butter gone off or old chip pan oil.
I wore my summer suit pretty well through that winter, and the following summer experienced the longest, dryest spell of all, in the period when salaried men are gone on vacation and manuscripts lie in editorial offices until vacation is over. Chapter 26
It was a rocket, gone the instant the sound reached our ears.
A generation earlier, four uncles had gone to fight for the British Empire and also came home unscratched.
Had an awful headache, the back is still sore, but most the other achiness has gone away.
Do not cracksmen, when assembled together, entertain themselves with stories of glorious old burglaries which they or bygone heroes have committed? Roundabout Papers
Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press.
Often conference goers are anxious to get early places in the meal queue, but although we had gone overtime for lunch, Nigel captivated the room.
We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Following the incident with the boy a Dig Daddy style man had gone to his door and beaten him up.
For 20 long days these workers will pick the saffron crocus from early morning until the entire crop of regal purple is gone.
I fear, he has even gone mad from his consumption of so much information.
But gone are the days when overmighty Governments or greedy and arrogant ministers were its targets.
The further revision and preparation that the letters have undergone is shortly this. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
This time the objects have undergone a process of distillation into primal forms. The Times Literary Supplement
He has deemed himself a failure and largely abandoned literature, but Jed's portrait of him captures his bygone intensity—"he appears to be in a trance, possessed by a fury that some have not hesitated to describe as demoniac. Reflections on Self-Regard
He, however, is no imitative epigone, but a historian of the first rank, helped rather than hindered by the literary tradition within which he wrote.
He was so clearly innocent, the case should never have gone to court.
Their secretive rituals and mysterious ceremonies have gone largely unchanged for centuries. Times, Sunday Times
I sot up till the clock was gone twelve last night, a-lookin at em, I did, till they stared at me out o the picturs as if theyd know when I spoke to em. III. A Voice from the Past. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation
It took an incident of extreme force to reveal how far down the road she had gone. COMPULSION

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