How to Use tear gas in a Sentence

tear gas

noun
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  • 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 | Pgattis@al.com, 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
  • The gunman, who had sealed off doors and used tear gas, was sentenced to life in prison.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 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
  • In the day, water cannons, tear gas, gunfire, and more.
    — Amy Gunia, Time, 18 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.
    — Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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 | Lroop@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Congress had been evacuated; the air was full of tear gas.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • Police used tear gas, flash bangs and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.
    — Author: Griff Witte, Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Police responded with water cannons and tear gas to control the crowd.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024

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