How to Use dead and buried in a Sentence

dead and buried

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• The past is often considered dead and buried, and worlds apart from the present.
  — Lindsey Büster, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
• Once the target is declared dead and buried, the Bokor can dig up the grave and claim his zombi.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
• Nadal found a second wind after appearing dead and buried after two sets.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• But with the Broncos looking dead and buried, its senior leader stepped up.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2025
• Less than a month ago, Nebraska basketball was dead and buried.
  — Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
• For those who declared emo long dead and buried, let this song be a fist, bursting defiantly from the soil.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• This could be the mother spider, previously thought dead and buried.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
• So then, is vibe coding and writing now the de facto standard… and, is coding itself dead and buried?
  — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• Most of the composers on San Diego Symphony programs are already dead and buried.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• Tony Stark would still be dead and buried, but a digital version of him would exist to power AI projects.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile, other technologies that appeared dead and buried have since madecomebacks.
  — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 3 July 2024
• Then, the Islanders lit them up with four goals in the third period and the locker room after that game suggested that the Penguins were dead and buried.
  — Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
• While the two-state model is not necessarily dead and buried, the conditions under which it can be realized have drastically changed.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
• After six years of crickets, the live-action Robin Hood is officially dead and buried in Kirklees Priory.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
• As if her pants weren’t controversial enough, Moss opted for a pair of low-rise skinny jeans—a double whammy for those who want the 2000s to stay dead and buried.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
• That era is now dead and buried along with globalism, the ideology that propelled it, and unipolarity, the international order that upheld it.
  — Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2022
• Miller told detectives that a missing teenage girl was dead and buried in Volusia County, and that Donley and Freeman had something to do with it.
  — Frank Fernandez, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
• Various outlets across Catalonia report that the Dutchman is dead and buried, with Xavi Hernandez ready to take over the hotseat.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• In 2018, Stote was arrested for writing bad checks on Shoff’s bank accounts, records say, though at the time police had no idea that Shoff was long dead and buried.
  — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The exhilarating new angles on zombie-horror tropes that should be dead and buried by now—the societal allegory, the design of the undead themselves—are impressive.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
• Just like against Liverpool on match day one, the end result didn’t flatter them in the slightest, with Spalletti ordering his team to keep their foot on the peddle, even with the game long since dead and buried.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• The long-decaying White Plains Mall is dead and buried, with developers set to break ground this week on the first phase of a $650 million project to build hundreds of apartments in its place.
  — Kate King, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
• For business leaders, Staley’s sudden departure and the still unfolding story behind it could prompt concerns and questions about issues in their own pasts that, though assumed are dead and buried, could unexpectedly come back to life.
  — Edward Segal, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• However, the corpse flower is not dead and buried just yet; this study's findings highlight the urgency of creating a global genetic database and for international cooperation in finding new ways to prevent inbreeding.
  — New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2025