Sentence examples for has long died from inspiring English sources

A decade on, the hype around a Ridley Scott film of The Passage has long died, but rumours have resurfaced of it appearing on the small screen instead.

Although Ms. Monheit can swing, she is more temperamentally suited to ballads like "Two Lonely People," a Bill Evans melody with lyrics by Carol Hall that describes a married couple who "once loved and were caring" but for whom the flame has long died.

Answers.com – which now apparently prefers to be called just "Answers" – itself was acquired by AFCV Holdings for $127 million last year (though some of its shareholder apparently tried to block the deal) and even though the hype around the site has long died down, comScore ranks it among the top 20 sites in the U.S. and top 50 sites in the world.

The former pet fad of pot bellied pigs has long died out, leaving many adult pigs in animal shelters and pig rescues.

The commotion has long since died down; an election has recently brought a new government to power.

Old Alphonse has long since died and, sadly, his fields have been cut up into neat housing plots by developers.

Months before the robbery, the "fourth" man (who has long since died) had informed law enforcement officials of the plan to rob the post office.

Opera, the grandest form of singing in the 19th century, has long since died as the "living engine of vocal creativity", the authors conclude.

Though deference has long since died and an increasing proportion of Britons boast a university education, participation in formal politics, as in many other countries, is declining.

My father has long since died, but if I could speak to him today, I would want to tell him that I had forgiven him.

The furor engendered by the upstart arrival of Hennig's ideas has long since died down and phylogenetic systematics is now the de facto order of the day.