long gone

idiom

: having ended, died, disappeared, etc., at a distant time in the past

Those buildings are long gone now.

Examples of long gone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Watchman Trail in Zion National Park, Utah The dry heat that typically deters hikers from southern Utah in the summer is long gone by the winter months. —Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026

Never mind that all three were long gone. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026

Its ’70s heyday was long gone, but the legend of that bacchanal still pulsed through the venue’s walls. —Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 29 Dec. 2025

For well over 2,200 years, the final resting place of China’s first Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, has served as a time capsule of a time now long gone. —Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025