GONE in a Sentence

Learn GONE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
332 example sentences for GONE, such as:
1. He's gone AWOL from his base.
2. The ball had gone out of play.
3. She'd already gone when we got there.
4. My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.
5. When he returned, she and Simon had already gone.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GONE
gone
 a.  destroyed or killed
 a.  no longer retained
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  And if anything was gone from her, he never missed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  "He's been gone to Louisiana this month now," said Gerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
1  He had gone absolutely scarlet with embarrassment.
2  England scored again, but the whistle had gone and the goal was disallowed.
3  He has gone; you can breathe again.
4  The empty desk suggested she had already gone home.
5  She'd already gone when we got there.
6  You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
7  Once already heals by the needle jianzha broken fingertip, whose horizon have you gone to.
8  When he returned, she and Simon had already gone.
9  My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.
10  I am about to lose my mind,You have been gone for so long.
11  A tremendous amount of work has gone into the project.
12  The ball had gone out of play.
13  He's gone AWOL from his base.
14  Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
15  What has gone is that beautiful period;which remains is the precious friendship between us.