How to Use tear gas in a Sentence

tear gas

noun

• Throughout this, there was the tear gas, which wouldn’t stop.
  — Adam Leventhal, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
• At one point, the police set off tear gas and Wexler and his crew are caught in the fray.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
• The use of tear gas has been a flashpoint issue in the aftermath of the protests.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 3 July 2021
• The soldiers had thrown tear gas at them, forcing them to flee.
  — Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• On April 19, in an effort to end the siege, the FBI used tear gas to try to force members out of the compound.
  — Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
• Two weeks later, the acrid smell of tear gas was no longer strong in her apartment.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
• Three nights of protests were met with tear gas, flashbangs and arrests.
  — Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022
• The winds were in the protesters’ favor, and most of the tear gas blew back toward the police line.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Riot police used tear gas and clashed with some in the crowd as trash bins were set on fire.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Bohmer’s tires were slashed and tear gas canisters were placed in his car.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• Then the police march in front of the camera, and begin firing tear gas.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• Police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowd but failed and more and more marched down the lane and towards the office.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 July 2022
• Police tried to contain the crowds with tear gas and pellet guns.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• Police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• Security threw tear gas at us, and the guys threw it back at them.
  — Rebecca McCray, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021
• In both incidents, the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Lisa Fazio, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
• The explosive crack of tear gas in the hallways outside.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, chicagotribune.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• Television footage showed tear gas and officers in the streets as night fell in the port city.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 1 July 2023
• Then people got mad about the tear gas and started running.
  — USA Today, 30 Sep. 2021
• Police, who had warned of fines and arrests, used tear gas to disperse crowds.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• Reporters were hit with tear gas, lamp posts were ripped down and a news van was flipped over, Belculfine said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Then, the police started firing tear gas into the stands.
  — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The report tries to explain one of the main points of lingering contention: who used tear gas and when?
  — Ashraf Khalil, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2021
• During two protests, clouds of tear gas blanketing the courthouse square and Big Spring Park.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2022
• Congress had been evacuated; the air was full of tear gas.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• Police were called in, and two students were shot and killed by a sheriff’ deputy while tear gas was being used on the crowd.
  — Lisa Fazio, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
• In Grand Rapids, Michigan, an officer shot a man in the shoulder at close range with a long-range tear gas round.
  — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 17 June 2021
• The truth is that the vast majority of kids never even saw a barricade or got a whiff of tear gas.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2023
• Law enforcement used tear gas and flash bangs to disperse the demonstrators just before Trump was set to deliver remarks from the Rose Garden.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2025
• Eventually, officers deployed tear gas into his room, flushing him out and arresting him.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025