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
• If the vote goes the way of a second Trump term, well, our country was already too far gone for the courts to save us from ourselves.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• 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 monkeys – mid-sized primates known for their roaring calls – were too far gone as Mexico grapples with drought along with heat.
  — Mark Stevenson and Maria Verza, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 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
• Between the lines: Independents were most likely to believe that democracy is too far gone.
  — April Rubin, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Because diabetes is a progressive disease, if it is diagnosed a decade or more after its onset, the beta cells are sometimes too far gone to salvage.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 6 May 2024
• 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
• But for a candidate who moved back into Michigan to run this race — having moved to Florida — and who hadn't been in political office for most of a decade, this race has so far gone about as well as could be expected.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024