How to Use far gone in a Sentence

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• As well as pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022
• Last year, Texas’ game against Iowa State showed how far gone the team was.
  — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2022
• And if that’s the case, the name game probably is too far gone.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• Some ears, such as my right one, are too far gone for filler.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• By the time an angel can get there, Dan's too far gone.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 30 May 2021
• Or maybe even the 4th seed, but Prince George is probably too far gone.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
• He was told that his body was was too far gone to make any significant changes to his health.
  — Nile Fortner, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2022
• John had been part of a rescue mission to bring wounded soldiers to England by ship and leave those too far gone to die.
  — Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• All of the occupants were offered spots at the city’s new Roseville Road shelter, and two have so far gone, Swanson said.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
• So often, people turn the other cheek and pay them no mind or assume addicts are too far gone.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
• Those who aren’t too far gone may be able to get their homes under control with a little awareness, a lot of motivation, the help of a friend and a few new habits.
  — Marni Jameson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• The 4-footers have so far gone in for him, but the nerves tend to fray with the years and the weekend ahead will be everything even a player of Mickelson's pedigree can handle.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• And as Inverse notes in its report on the research, many people are too far gone to help, as the condition has progressed beyond the point of no return.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Aug. 2022
• Bark falling off and fungi sprouting from the wood are both typical signs that the wood is too far gone for friction fire components like drills and boards.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
• Instead of patching and fixing a relic that was likely too far gone to fix, Microsoft started anew.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2022
• The play desperately tries to turn comic but can’t, both because Barron doesn’t have the staging savvy for farce and because the show is already so far gone in inky-black despair.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2022
• Hoping to reel herself in before she’s too far gone, Allison attends a support group meeting at a church.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2022
• The military may be the last hope against a total collapse of our republican form of government — but that may mean the republic is already too far gone to save.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
• Yet mobilizing rich countries’ to invest in vaccines for diseases that seem far gone isn’t always easy.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 25 July 2022
• Those who fall on the other side of that figure are too far gone, completely untethered from any semblance of reality.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
• In August, Becker introduced articles of impeachment against DeWine over the same issues, though that measure has so far gone nowhere.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2020
• Ask whether the trees are too far gone to merit ongoing treatment, which could easily run hundreds of dollars per tree per year for multiple problems.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• Baker said his calls to Heather Davis, the club’s general counsel who was appointed president of Peregrine Sports amid the upheaval, had so far gone unreturned.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2022
• On the one hand, the incident reveals just how far gone Nicky is, but on the other, the mother of the boy gives Jack her necklace — a Buddhist symbol of purpose — that becomes very important in the Pearson family mythology.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 May 2021
• To avoid an even grimmer future, the report’s authors warned, communities needed to recognize a harsh reality: Some young people are too far gone to save.
  — Matthew Thompson, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• The deconstruction is necessary because the pavilion's condition is too far gone, said Tim Askin, a city historic preservation planner.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2023
• Human intervention is especially needed where the landscape is completely charred and Joshua trees are too far gone to regenerate on their own.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
• Of rescue efforts for 80 manatees, a task requiring 10 personnel for each animal, many were too far gone: seven died during rescue and eight died in intensive care.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• America’s dynamic economy means the debt situation isn’t too far gone to rectify just yet.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
• And while some states, including Nebraska, have created initiatives targeting population loss, those programs have not reached places as far gone as Monowi.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2022

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024