goners
- plural of goner.
Example Sentences
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When Polkinghorne went out to check on her incubated emu eggs after the spring storm caused a power outage, she thought all the unhatched chicks were goners.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022
"When I was in Vietnam, as long as that flag was flying, we were fighting. If there was no flag up there, we were goners, so yea, it means a lot to me."
From Fox News • Sep. 23, 2021
Photographer Peter Mitchell went about photographing these "goners" before the bulldozers removed every trace of them.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2019
The remaining Night's Watch characters are all goners.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019
If a supernova explosion happened within five hundred light-years of us, we would be goners, according to Evans–"it would wreck the show," as he cheerfully puts it.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
