Examples of goner in a Sentence
This old computer is a goner. We'll have to get a new one.
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Before filming began on season 3, he was given the official word: Ben was a goner.
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Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Back to that introduction: Mickey No. 17 had been considered a goner, left to die in that ice cave on the planet Niflheim (Norse mythology scholars, mark your bingo cards).
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Donna Langley and Matt Strauss get those remaining goodies, Mark Lazarus inherits the goners.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Ryan Lindgren appears to be a goner sooner rather than later.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Back to that introduction: Mickey No. 17 had been considered a goner, left to die in that ice cave on the planet Niflheim (Norse mythology scholars, mark your bingo cards).
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Donna Langley and Matt Strauss get those remaining goodies, Mark Lazarus inherits the goners.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Ryan Lindgren appears to be a goner sooner rather than later.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Goner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goner. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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goner
noun
gon·er
ˈgȯn-ər 
also ˈgän-
: one whose case is hopeless
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