Sentence examples for been dead for ages from inspiring English sources

That's been dead for ages.

It's been dead for ages".

Coco Chanel isn't usually in the news much, having been dead for ages, but here she is, back in the limelight being quoted in a racecourse's attempt to "inspire women".

undated painting of Napoleon from AP BY JILL VAN DER AUWERA The worst thing about history is the fact that most of the really cool stuff happened centuries ago so anyone who can tell you anything remotely vivid about it has been dead for ages.

Bates had been dead for years.

He's been dead for years".

To paraphrase the musical satirist Tom Lehrer, when Mozart was Mr. Carter's age, he had been dead for 65 years.

Correction: May 2 , 2001 Wednesday Because of an editing error, a review of the show "George Gershwin Alone" yesterday misstated the likely age of the song satirist Tom Lehrer when he said "When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years".

After Mr. Felder's renderings of snippets of many of Gershwin's greatest hits, you may leave the theater with some version of the feeling expressed by the singing satirist Tom Lehrer, who must have been 38 when he remarked, in amazement, "When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years".

By the time they were Rahul's age, Mozart and Alexander the Great had both been dead for several years.

When Pablo Escobar was Chapo's age, he had been dead for more than a decade.