How to Use gang in a Sentence

gang

1 of 2 noun

• He is in a gang.
• He was shot by a member of a rival gang.
• The images showed the gang breaking the vault's glass with an axe.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
• The all-girl gang even modeled their all-white fits in the cutest TikTok video.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 6 July 2023
• The two gang leaders, Mr. Macías and Mr. Colón, remained at large.
  — Annie Correal, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Killings have surged in Ecuador as drug gangs have shaken the country.
  — Ryan Dubé, WSJ, 7 June 2023
• The war between the two teenage gangs would not only change the nature of malware.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• By the time a blurry spectral figure appears, the gang is geared up and ready for a fight.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
• This book tracks a gang of con men, led by a man who died in a Kansas City hotel in 1904.
  — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
• The Times points out that Peter's brother is the one who footed the bill to fly the whole gang to Paris, with the adults all sitting in first class.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
• Afeni Shakur, former leader of a street gang, was one of these recruits.
  — Keisha N. Blain, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• Then he was killed by his own gang in a Chicago story that shocked the nation 25 years ago.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2023
• There was the one about a gang initiation in Little Rock.
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• Street gangs and the KKK exist, and the people in these little platoons conspire to do bad things.
  — Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Some missions in the game will include heists and gang rivalries.
  — Lily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
• Last summer the gang hosted four lobster bakes there with 350 tickets each that all sold out in a day.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• LaFortune’s husband heard news that gangs were closing in on Saint-Marc.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• Senior staff had flopped down on the couch in Klein’s office, discussing a camper who had been sent home for flashing a gang sign.
  — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• Senior staff had flopped down on the couch in Ms. Klein’s office, discussing a camper who had been sent home for flashing a gang sign.
  — Ellen Barry Brittainy Newman, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Here was what appeared to be a rip crew, a local gang that stalked smuggling trails and stole from migrants or guides.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The bank appears to be the latest victim of the prolific ransomware gang known as Lockbit.
  — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
• Two of the gang reportedly ripped the watch off the wrist of a businessman who was shopping with his wife and daughter, shoving his wife to the ground in the process.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023
• Haiti is the middle of a crisis and is without a government as gangs in Port-au-Prince prevent one.
  — Greg Dixon, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
• If Carrefour-Feuilles should fall into gang control, the fear is the sliver of Port-au-Prince that has remained out of the gangs’ hands will soon fall as well.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2023
• The whole gang are Beats by Dre’s first family brand ambassadors.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
• After all this time, the gang’s ties to one another are still montage-level deep.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• Our testing gang consisted of two adults and two young children.
  — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2023
• The two actors lead Jeff Nichols’ gang drama alongside Jodie Comer.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Her parents instilled in the girls the need to avoid trouble, something that was a challenge given the prevalence of gangs, violence and drugs in their neighborhood.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
• Fighting has broken out in Haiti’s capital since late February as gangs have battled police for control of Port-au-Prince.
  — Ashley Carnahan, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2024

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gang

2 of 2 verb

• Inside, the aggressors blocked the door and ganged up on one boy.
  — Reese Dunklin, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
• In April, Gianforte joked about ganging up on a reporter at town hall with hundreds of supporters.
  — Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Such engines can run solo but are typically ganged together in groups of two to four.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• And given the left-leaning ethos of the entertainment world, the fact that nearly all the hosts are ganging up on the president may not be surprising either.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 8 May 2017
• Not exactly the words a president wants to hear in the opening months of his term — that the two usually warring parties on Capitol Hill instead joined forces to gang up on him.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• Sometimes multiple guardians of the English language will gang up, employing ridicule through bad cop-bad cop ridiculing tactics.
  — By Emily Parnell, kansascity.com, 20 June 2017
• If a small majority (or even a large majority) of owners could gang together to reduce their percentage and raise others’, that would be neither fair nor honest.
  — Benny L. Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2017
• And yet the oscillators responded differently to identical conditions, some ganging together while the rest went their own way, as if not coupled to anything at all.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2019
• The new version faces contemporary challenges: Many species featured in the original are now considered endangered and Marvel’s Wolverine and Wolfsbane are always ganging up on our hero.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 13 June 2017
• A few days after the review appeared online, Troemel posted a side-by-side comparison and his supporters swiftly expressed their alarm over the similarity, in some cases, ganging up on Gazinskaya.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 13 July 2017
• Gyrostabilization is used in commercial shipping, military vessels and cost-is-no-object megayachts, and the devices are easily ganged together.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• This inexplicably trendy office design has employees ganged together in close quarters, sharing rows of desks and workstations, with no physical boundaries or privacy.
  — Jonas Downey, Quartz at Work, 22 Aug. 2019
• Inside, the aggressors blocked the door and ganged up on one boy.
  — Reese Dunklin, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
• In April, Gianforte joked about ganging up on a reporter at town hall with hundreds of supporters.
  — Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Such engines can run solo but are typically ganged together in groups of two to four.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• And given the left-leaning ethos of the entertainment world, the fact that nearly all the hosts are ganging up on the president may not be surprising either.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 8 May 2017
• Not exactly the words a president wants to hear in the opening months of his term — that the two usually warring parties on Capitol Hill instead joined forces to gang up on him.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• Sometimes multiple guardians of the English language will gang up, employing ridicule through bad cop-bad cop ridiculing tactics.
  — By Emily Parnell, kansascity.com, 20 June 2017
• If a small majority (or even a large majority) of owners could gang together to reduce their percentage and raise others’, that would be neither fair nor honest.
  — Benny L. Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2017
• And yet the oscillators responded differently to identical conditions, some ganging together while the rest went their own way, as if not coupled to anything at all.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2019
• The new version faces contemporary challenges: Many species featured in the original are now considered endangered and Marvel’s Wolverine and Wolfsbane are always ganging up on our hero.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 13 June 2017
• A few days after the review appeared online, Troemel posted a side-by-side comparison and his supporters swiftly expressed their alarm over the similarity, in some cases, ganging up on Gazinskaya.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 13 July 2017
• Gyrostabilization is used in commercial shipping, military vessels and cost-is-no-object megayachts, and the devices are easily ganged together.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• This inexplicably trendy office design has employees ganged together in close quarters, sharing rows of desks and workstations, with no physical boundaries or privacy.
  — Jonas Downey, Quartz at Work, 22 Aug. 2019
• Inside, the aggressors blocked the door and ganged up on one boy.
  — Reese Dunklin, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
• In April, Gianforte joked about ganging up on a reporter at town hall with hundreds of supporters.
  — Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Such engines can run solo but are typically ganged together in groups of two to four.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• And given the left-leaning ethos of the entertainment world, the fact that nearly all the hosts are ganging up on the president may not be surprising either.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 8 May 2017
• Not exactly the words a president wants to hear in the opening months of his term — that the two usually warring parties on Capitol Hill instead joined forces to gang up on him.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• Sometimes multiple guardians of the English language will gang up, employing ridicule through bad cop-bad cop ridiculing tactics.
  — By Emily Parnell, kansascity.com, 20 June 2017

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