How to Use gang in a Sentence

gang

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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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