GONE in a Sentence

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332 example sentences for GONE, such as:

1. He has gone on a business trip.
2. When love puts in, friendship is gone.
3. She has gone to see her sister this weekend.
4. He's gone straight to the top, the lucky bastard.
5. They've gone swanning off to Paris for the weekend.

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 Meanings and Examples of GONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gone
 a.  no longer present; departed
 v.  (past participle) keep or be in motion; perform as required
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "You'd have found me right off if you hadn't gone back to have that last reel with Denis," he brought out awkwardly.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  He felt that he might have "gone like his mother" if the sound of a new voice had not come to steady him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  "I'm obliged to you, but I'll try if I can get it down at Mrs. Homan's," Ethan answered, burning to be gone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
4  Then the girl had returned to her task of clearing up the kitchen for the night and he had taken his lantern and gone on his usual round outside the house.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  Zeena, who had gone back to her seat by the stove, did not lift her head from her book as he passed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Old Mrs. Varnum, by this time, had gone up to bed, and her daughter and I were sitting alone, after supper, in the austere seclusion of the horse-hair parlour.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  Just how, the twins did not know, but the fine glow had gone out of the afternoon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  And if anything was gone from her, he never missed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the other O'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  He had gone up there and established a plantation; but, now the house had burned down, he was tired of the "accursed place" and would be most happy to get it off his hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  "He's been gone to Louisiana this month now," said Gerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Savannah buzzed behind its doors and speculated about Philippe Robillard, who had gone West, but the gossiping brought no answer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  There was a brief interval of whispering, and Pork entered, his usual dignity gone, his eyes rolling and his teeth a-gleam.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Her mind was as if a cyclone had gone through it, and it seemed strange that the dining room where they sat should be so placid, so unchanged from what it had always been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  She couldn't have been very nice or she wouldn't have gone out with him in the late afternoon without a chaperon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
16  We've gone ex-directory because we were receiving so many unwanted calls.
17  She's gone to bed with swollen glands and a temperature.
18  He's gone straight to the top, the lucky bastard.
19  He has gone on a business trip.
20  She has gone on holiday with her husband to try to patch up their marriage.
21  What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is gone and notyhing done.
22  To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
23  She has gone to see her sister this weekend.
24  They've gone swanning off to Paris for the weekend.
25  I assumed things had gone well for him as he had a big grin on his face.
26  When love puts in, friendship is gone.
27  She stood up in her stirrups to see where the others had gone.
28  He's a singer whose talent has gone off in recent years.
29  Within six weeks the bruising had gone, but it was six months before it all healed.
30  She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.