Explore Goner through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like toast or desperate. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Goner meaning
- Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.
- A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.
Using Goner
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon. | A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.
- Useful related words include: toast, desperate.
- In the example corpus, goner often appears in combinations such as: was goner, is goner, be goner.
Context around Goner
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goner
- In this selection, "goner" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 18.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include be a goner and is a goner. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goner" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goner
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Do you think Eraserhead is a goner? (7 words)
We totally thought she was a goner. (7 words)
First ball after the break, Pant is a goner! (9 words)
One thing the pine specialists agree on is that when a tree is weakened all sorts of bad bugs and diseases are attracted to the tree and by then it is pretty well a goner. (35 words)
Wirecard is a goner, but its software and licence to process card payments for merchants (known as "acquiring" in the lingo) could come up for sale in its liquidation. (29 words)
He especially seemed like a goner during the Battle of the Bastards and the misadventures Beyond the Wall. But he and his beard have always come through. (27 words)
Do you think Eraserhead is a goner? (7 words)
First ball after the break, Pant is a goner! (9 words)
Example sentences (13)
One thing the pine specialists agree on is that when a tree is weakened all sorts of bad bugs and diseases are attracted to the tree and by then it is pretty well a goner.
H said: 'I thought I was a goner, I'm lost for words!' whilst Craig remained humble and thanked the judges.
And if your mother gets sick, she'll be a goner.
Do you think Eraserhead is a goner?
If he hadn't had come out for me, I would have been a goner," he said.
Instead he was kneecapped by his boss, who probably wanted to hire La Russa before we even knew Renteria was a goner.
Wirecard is a goner, but its software and licence to process card payments for merchants (known as "acquiring" in the lingo) could come up for sale in its liquidation.
Colin de Grandhomme should have been a goner if not for Madusunka falling flat on his back.
First ball after the break, Pant is a goner!
He especially seemed like a goner during the Battle of the Bastards and the misadventures Beyond the Wall. But he and his beard have always come through.
Dorinda MacIsaac with Lola the cat, who returned Oct. 31 after being missing and feared a goner for the past five months in the Enfield area.
If they stumble and miss the playoffs, Harbaugh could be a goner.
We totally thought she was a goner.
Common combinations with goner
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- was goner 3×
- is goner 3×
- be goner 2×
- been goner 2×