How to Use gone in a Sentence

gone

adjective

• The outfielder went back to the fence and jumped, but the ball was gone.
• She should have been back by now. She's been gone for more than an hour.
• Room by room, the author takes us through the house, now long gone.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
• The screaming fans, now mute; the arena lights, long gone.
  — Mirin Fader, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• There’s no other way that could’ve gone to make that any more spectacular.
  — Chaunte'l Powell, orlandosentinel.com, 3 June 2019
• The case has been stymied by numerous delays, and Noguez still hasn’t gone to trial.
  — Adam Elmahrek, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
• Hopefully, Germany and Europe are not too far gone to hear it.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Sep. 2017
• But Illinois’s pension deficits are too far gone and its leaders are quickly running out of tricks.
  — Lauren Silva Laughlin, WSJ, 11 June 2019
• Al-Khatib’s home an d almost everything his family owned is long gone.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
• Running David Montgomery also thought the play should’ve gone to Iowa State.
  — Nathan Ruiz, ajc, 11 Nov. 2017
• Democrats may be too far gone to listen, in which case the only discipline would be political defeat.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• However, some lenses might just be too far gone and need either professional help or to be replaced entirely.
  — Michael Austin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2017
• Her impulse control is practically gone.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
• Suddenly, photos, videos, or important documents are just… gone.
  — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
• Clouds have evaporated into practically nothing and are expected to stay gone.
  — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
• Things haven't quite gone to plan for Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid side this season, despite positive results on the whole.
  — SI.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• And even with those two gone, Dubar slid down Boise State’s depth chart, managing just three carries for 12 yards so far in 2025.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 5 Nov. 2025
• Neither Lue nor the organization expects him to be gone long -- both sides say certainly before the playoffs start in mid-April, but maybe even before the month is out.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Mentally and physically exhausted from trying to console the family members of someone gone way too soon and in a violent manner.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• The Ferrara Candy Company is gone, too, sold to a private equity firm in 2012.
  — Jason Buckland, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• By reprogramming ordinary cells—like skin fibroblasts—into stem cells, scientists hope to create eggs and sperm from individuals long gone.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• If the tree is too far gone — which is likely for most trees in Indiana — the arborist can help determine the tree's structural integrity and recommend a removal process and provide a quote.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2017
• Much of the film’s early conflict derives from Rosie’s fear that Jojo is too far gone—that the ideology of a regime that’s existed his whole life has irrevocably brainwashed him.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Residents who first left NOLA for Houston and Nashville and Atlanta as refugees decided to stay gone.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
• That’s an advantage not available to lower-income students, even those who’ve gone attending an outstanding high school like those run by charter operator KIPP.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2017
• But the stories of the black conservatives who tried to tell America that something was deeply wrong with the Republican Party many of them loved deeply aren’t too far gone to be remembered, or to be retold today.
  — Jane Coaston, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• Not only are the views, of course, often repulsive, but the actual form of argument is not argument… That’s what interests me, that even the most basic principles that people have worked on for 2,000 years to establish what a fact means…gone.
  — Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2025
• Retaining Hall, 39, keeps one familiar face from Dart’s rookie year on the offensive side of the building for his second NFL season, with Brian Daboll, Mike Kafka and Shea Tierney all long gone.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026