But in the next moment, without warning, it is completely and irretrievably gone, as if it had never existed.

She was totally, completely, irretrievably gone.

The committee at Harvard, in essence, declared that the person was gone when his or her memories and personality, located in the brain, were irretrievably gone.

Spock inspected twenty more banks chosen at random before concluding that more than eighty-eight percent of the ship's computer capacity was irretrievably gone.

For every brand and for every person, yesterday is irretrievably gone and tomorrow is worth a great deal.

Any single minute lost after you're thirteen is an hour irretrievably gone.

Those bittersweet days were irretrievably gone.

But sooner or later, they're irretrievably gone, and you're left with nothing but a wolf.

Now she was irretrievably gone.

He told himself that the real Ilia was irretrievably gone and that his loyalty belonged to the living.