How to Use dead and buried in a Sentence
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The past is often considered dead and buried, and worlds apart from the present.
—Lindsey Büster, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
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Once the target is declared dead and buried, the Bokor can dig up the grave and claim his zombi.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
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Another dream dead and buried, this time by an Avalanche.
—Viv Bernstein, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2021
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For those who declared emo long dead and buried, let this song be a fist, bursting defiantly from the soil.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
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Most of the composers on San Diego Symphony programs are already dead and buried.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
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Tony Stark would still be dead and buried, but a digital version of him would exist to power AI projects.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Apr. 2022
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This could be the mother spider, previously thought dead and buried.
—Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
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In 2018, Stote was arrested for writing bad checks on Shoff’s bank accounts, records say, though at the time police had no idea that Shoff was long dead and buried.
—Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
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Nadal found a second wind after appearing dead and buried after two sets.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
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The long-decaying White Plains Mall is dead and buried, with developers set to break ground this week on the first phase of a $650 million project to build hundreds of apartments in its place.
—Kate King, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
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The mere consideration of the Pac-12 playing football this fall had been dead and buried for nearly a month when the league took a significant step forward on Sept. 3.
—Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
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Just like against Liverpool on match day one, the end result didn’t flatter them in the slightest, with Spalletti ordering his team to keep their foot on the peddle, even with the game long since dead and buried.
—Emmet Gates, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
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Various outlets across Catalonia report that the Dutchman is dead and buried, with Xavi Hernandez ready to take over the hotseat.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 18 May 2021
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That era is now dead and buried along with globalism, the ideology that propelled it, and unipolarity, the international order that upheld it.
—Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2022
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For business leaders, Staley’s sudden departure and the still unfolding story behind it could prompt concerns and questions about issues in their own pasts that, though assumed are dead and buried, could unexpectedly come back to life.
—Edward Segal, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
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