How to Use a human chain in a Sentence

a human chain

noun
  • The following Sunday about 70 formed a human chain around the building.
    — Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Video shows people forming a human chain in the water earlier Tuesday evening, trying to safely help in the search.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • On May 25, 1986, people joined hands – literally – to try and form a human chain along a route across the country.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Onlookers were silent as a human chain of civil defense workers and volunteers carefully extracted the person from within the ruins.
    — Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • Protesters attempted to form a human chain outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026
  • Demonstrators have been attempting to block people and vehicles from entering and exiting, linking their arms in a human chain and using trash cans, umbrellas and other items as makeshift shields and barricades.
    — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Several good Samaritans quickly joined him, forming a human chain to stabilize the vehicle, which was wedged against a fallen tree — the only thing preventing it from plummeting down the mountainside.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Groups of demonstrators, many wearing gas masks and other face coverings, linked arms in a human chain in front of Delaney Hall in Newark on Wednesday night, videos and photos posted on social media show.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • Journalists and other employees formed a human chain around the Czech public radio in Prague on Monday as part of a warning strike against a plan by the government to overhaul the funding for public broadcasters.
    — ABC News, 22 June 2026

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