How do you use Goners in a sentence? See 3 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Goners meaning
plural of goner (persons who are in a desperate strait or doomed)
Using Goners
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of goner (persons who are in a desperate strait or doomed)
Context around Goners
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goners
- In this selection, "goners" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, now stand out and add context to how "goners" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are now goners after getting and they re goners. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goners" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goners
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
John Hiatt revisits ‘Slow Turning’ with The Goners on his latest tour. (12 words)
One turned sadly to another, lamenting, "There's nothing we can do for them; they're goners. (17 words)
It was a good example of what I wrote last week about how teams who drop off at this time of year – Manly competed for most of the match but couldn’t quite go the distance and the Eels are now goners after getting beaten by the Roosters. (48 words)
It was a good example of what I wrote last week about how teams who drop off at this time of year – Manly competed for most of the match but couldn’t quite go the distance and the Eels are now goners after getting beaten by the Roosters. (48 words)
One turned sadly to another, lamenting, "There's nothing we can do for them; they're goners. (17 words)
John Hiatt revisits ‘Slow Turning’ with The Goners on his latest tour. (12 words)
Example sentences (3)
It was a good example of what I wrote last week about how teams who drop off at this time of year – Manly competed for most of the match but couldn’t quite go the distance and the Eels are now goners after getting beaten by the Roosters.
John Hiatt revisits ‘Slow Turning’ with The Goners on his latest tour.
One turned sadly to another, lamenting, "There's nothing we can do for them; they're goners.