How to Use gaggle in a Sentence

gaggle

noun
  • On the flight home to D.C., Dr. Biden came to the back of the plane for an off-the-record gaggle.
    Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue, 29 June 2021
  • At the tail end of his gaggle, this reporter called out to Kennedy.
    Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • For now, the biggest question was where to take their gaggle of kids for brunch.
    Thomas Simonetti, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Their sons — ages 8 and 11 — will soon be home from school, along with a gaggle of Hershey girls.
    New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Somehow, it’s been a decade since fans got their last taste of the gaggle at MacLaren’s Pub.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The Smiths leave and a gaggle of teenagers — shirtless, backpacks, fresh off the beach — stroll past, singing along loudly.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
  • He was seen pulling a microphone away from the gaggle of reporters and moved to take off his mask.
    Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Family pets and a gaggle of hens may first seem at odds, but there’s hope.
    Caroline Collins McKenzie, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2020
  • And a gaggle of reporters now milled about the Weyerhaeuser front lawn.
    oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
  • A week later, around the same spot, a gaggle of folks stood with more microphones.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Images of a gaggle of cool teens pop up throughout her journey through the city.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The Facebook hearings were down the hall in the Russell Office Building, the press in full gaggle.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • This patch of desert is home to a gaggle of beer vendors who open for business on Wednesday.
    Tirion Morris, azcentral, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Binkley was one of a gaggle of admirers who wrote to RequiemForMatt@gmail.com, the address given in the obit.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the props needed a space this large to house them: a small gaggle of goose decoys, for example.
    New York Times, 15 June 2021
  • Prince Harry, the king’s estranged younger son, arrived alone with a gaggle of his cousins.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 May 2023
  • Gone are the gaggles of tourists and selfie-stick-wielding masses.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The throw landed in Richard Rodgers’ mitts right in front of a gaggle of defenders in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Get Zack’s gaggle and Simon and Jared’s gaggle to go to war.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 May 2024
  • With a gaggle of corpses behind her, Tanya now set her sights on escaping the yacht ride from hell.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Formiga was among them, almost lost in the gaggle of women.
    Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 13 June 2019
  • Get a gaggle of girls in face masks for a long-distance slumber party.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Skehel points out that there are more private jets at the airport, and a quick scan of the wharf yields gaggle of gleaming yachts.
    Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The snowy, wooded scene shows a gaggle of droids standing around a grill with what looks to be cheese curds directly on the grates.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
  • And as for the kiddos, a whole gaggle of them can play safely underneath.
    Summer Cartwright, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2020
  • By the time the beautiful gaggle descended down to the Piano Room, the party was in full swing.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Read along as bear enlists a gaggle of his animal friends to help snatch this sweet treat.
    Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The project finds her in what’s always seemed to be her comfort zone: surrounded by a gaggle of gal pals.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The latter was about a cranky guy who finds himself, against his will, looking after a gaggle of adorable kids.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Families stretch back for generations, and the kids are raised among a huge gaggle of cousins and aunts and uncles and stepsiblings.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024

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