How to Use gang in a Sentence

gang

1 of 2 noun
  • He is in a gang.
  • He was shot by a member of a rival gang.
  • The gang is meeting for the first time.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2026
  • All from the gang in the apartment.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Of course, the gang has its own problems.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, the gang wouldn’t just let Marie go off alone.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The gang that forms around him is called a carro, or car.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Ford was a member of the James gang.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Hill has been a gang-free zone ever since.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Most run into no problems with the gangs.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In all, seven members of the gang would do time.
    — Troy Roberts, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Roads once blocked by gangs have now free-flowing traffic.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The gang members faces are never shown.
    — Ychmuth Corneille, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Archie and the rest of his gang have always been a part of our household.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The streets, once controlled by gangs, are quieter.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Invite the gang over for pizza and beer or quiche and wine – your choice.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The gang would do an adaptation.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
  • But when Woody arrives, the rest of the gang are quick to spot his age.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Leo and Grace have a 2-year-old daughter adored by the gang.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Self-defense or gang-rival shootout?
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • There are gangs in Gaza now; Hamas is trying to fight them.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The club at the time was frequented by gang members.
    — Nolan Clay, Oklahoman, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Killings have surged in Ecuador as drug gangs have shaken the country.
    — Ryan Dubé, WSJ, 7 June 2023
  • Garrincha was one of the gang, and people loved him for it.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • Carrie and the gang helped bring them back before fading again.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The country is still run by gangs, which leads to a second issue.
    — Pedro A. Rojas Arroyo, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Seems like a big problem to fix, but that’s what Eleven and the gang are there to do.
    — Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Andrews is not accused of being in a gang.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Some of them are engaged in gang violence too.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This was hit very heavily by the looting gangs.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 28 June 2026

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
  • Inside, the aggressors blocked the door and ganged up on one boy.
    — Reese Dunklin, courant.com, 8 May 2017
  • The backs often could not get past the line of scrimmage, as defenders ganged up at the point of attack.
    — Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Such engines can run solo but are typically ganged together in groups of two to four.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • There were backyard productions that involved a boom box and family members press-ganged into service.
    — Adam Green, Vogue, 12 June 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
  • The chip is also designed to be ganged, so large numbers of NNPs can work together on a single task.
    — Jack Nicas, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the movie, Charlie Brown’s sad little Christmas tree saves the day, showing the Peanuts gang the true meaning of the season.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 14 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • In October, Congress reformed laws to declare members of the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs terrorists.
    — Sonia Pérez D, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Sixteen years after the devastating earthquake which killed some 200,000 people and left more than a million homeless, the government has all but collapsed and gangs battle for control of the capital Port-au-Prince.
    — Denise Schrier Cetta, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026

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