How to Use gang up in a Sentence

gang up

verb
  • The best strategy is to stick with your team, as if not, you will be ganged up on and destroyed.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • Going through the front door left me fighting a slew of enemies, who ganged up and quickly took me out.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Within a few moments, the teen wounded with his own knife reached out to friends to gang up on the person who stabbed him.
    — Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • If needed, multiple AI bots can work as a team to gang up on a person.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But Georgi was more upset that his wife and sister continue to gang up on him.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Moira and Luke also gang up on June a bit, painting a bigger picture for her.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Feeling like she was being ganged up on, Rose ended up flipping Barlow off and left.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Players can trade freely, but this can lead to ganging up, and there’s a robber mechanic that can cause arguments, so set some ground rules.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 17 July 2024
  • That's especially true when multiple enemies gang up to attack you from all sides.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Inadequate enclosures allegedly allowed a group of tigers to gang up on and kill an aging big cat.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Unlike their less-aggressive cousin the turkey vulture, black vultures are known to gang up and prey on living calves, piglets, lambs and newborn goats.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Will the Abbott crew lift the gang up to nobler heights, or will they be dragged into the gutter for some classic Sunny shenanigans?
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Elaborate floats and costumes abound during the Marche while the Nain taunts revelers, who gang up to drive him back out of the city and restore peace.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Another video appeared to show a group ganging up on a woman lying on the ground in the fetal position while others attempted to break up the crowd.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • So, even though Laurie drops the bombshell that Jaclyn hooked up with Kate’s husband, Laurie’s gal pals gang up on her.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Add the prospect that small investors stirred by Reddit might gang up on you, and the reluctance of money managers to take a short bet becomes more understandable.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • When Olivia dropped Sour, a majority of her fans ganged up against Joshua and his fans, creating major online drama.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The program is famous for sometimes fiery debates among the co-hosts, especially when the more liberal hosts gang up on conservative voices.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The first is its timing and the second is the likely solution, which some English Football League clubs believe is to gang up on them.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Opponents of the measure said Tlaib’s comments fell well short of censure, with allies saying lawmakers were ganging up on her unfairly.
    — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • As the trust stands now, all four siblings would have an equal vote, which means the three other eldest Murdoch kids, most of whom are estranged from their father, could gang up on Lachlan.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
  • As the trust stands now, all four siblings would have an equal vote – which means the three other eldest Murdoch kids, most of whom are estranged from their father, could gang up on Lachlan.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Putting Scooby-Doo and the gang up against real monsters creates some great storytelling opportunities.
    — Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Throughout the night, Machine Gun Kelly bemoaned the Internet for serving as a platform for haters to gang up on him for much of his career.
    — cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
  • As a result, Washington is investing more militarily in the region and calling on its allies and partners to gang up on China.
    — Zhou Bo, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2024
  • If Lozano can’t play, opponents will gang up on Dreyer, who indeed saw tighter coverage Saturday night after his fellow wing exited.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The Financial Times and other media outlets have decided to gang up on Apple over its China exposure.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The match, which sometimes featured the two bigger men (and former partners) ganging up on Bryan, ended with Bryan securing the victory by forcing Batista to tap out.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The match, which sometimes featured the two bigger men (and former partners) ganging up on Bryan, ended with Bryan securing the victory by forcing Batista to tap out.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Go all-in with your besties and claim the Honeymoon Suite for your group with its twin soaking tubs and double disco balls, and invite the gang up for a throwback night straight out of Studio 54.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2022

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