long gone

idiom

: having ended, died, disappeared, etc., at a distant time in the past

Those buildings are long gone now.

Examples of long gone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While the bamboo and bone tiles may be long gone, and the mahjong table is now inlaid with phone charging sockets rather than mother of pearl, the game’s magic remains the same. —Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025

This is how much warmer 2024 was than 2023 Last month's temperature was unprecedented compared to similar global climate cycles in the past, where temperatures dropped with El Niño long gone and La Niña conditions in place. —Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2025

Still, most of the ex-shortstop’s defensive flexibility is long gone, and Profar still hasn’t produced an above-average OPS in consecutive years, so a sizable multi-year investment would carry a lot of risk — or at least require a lot of faith that this is his new normal. —Tim Britton, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025

This can delay the process by hours, during which time most hemorrhaging patients will be long gone. —Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025