How to Use gang rape in a Sentence

gang rape

noun
  • Those found guilty of gang rape will be sentenced to death or life in prison.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • One was the account of this gang rape given to us by this source, Jackie.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Those whom Lamb interviewed told her that gang rape was so frequent that some women took their own lives.
    — Lindsey Hilsum, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • And in 2013, six men were sentenced to life in prison for the gang rape of a Swiss tourist.
    — CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There have also been protests against the gang rape of a woman in the northeastern area of Sylhet.
    — Arun Devnath, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • And then the Delhi 2012 gang rape and murder that shook the world happened.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • With that being said, a three-minute scene showing a gang rape is not mandatory to get the message across, Jeglic says.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Wilder already had been convicted as a juvenile for his part in a gang rape seven years earlier.
    — Holly Baltz, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024
  • Among them, survivors of gang rape and residents of a large displacement camp in the middle of the capital.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Her lawsuit against four other defendants accused of gang rape will go on and is set for trial in February.
    — Teri Figueroa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In 2020 they were found guilty of offenses ranging from negligence of duty to gang rape.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Kagan recalls having to prepare an appeal in the case of a Salvadoran girl who had barely escaped a gang rape.
    — Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Her lawsuit against four other defendants accused of gang rape remains and is set for trial in February.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In retaliation for the gang rape, groups of residents torched shacks belonging to the zama zamas.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • While awaiting trial in jail, Helterbrand was charged again, this time with helping members of a hate gang rape another inmate with a toothbrush.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Araiza is named in a civil lawsuit alleging he was involved with other San Diego State players in a gang rape of a teenager.
    — Schuyler Dixon, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2022
  • With Petrus elsewhere, three men and a teenage boy arrive at Lucy’s door, loot the house, kill all but one of her dogs, attempt to set David on fire and then gang rape her.
    — Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • The dark underside of this strange mix recently came to light again after a brutal gang rape in June of a 27-year-old Georgian tourist.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Most infamous of all these cases was a 2012 a gang rape of a physiotherapy student on a bus, which was condemned around the world.
    — Anna Gordon, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Araiza is named in a civil lawsuit alleging he was involved with other San Diego State players in a gang rape of a teenager last fall.
    — Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Some patients spoke of gang rapes, others said they were touched inappropriately by men at checkpoints in El Geneina and on the way to Chad.
    — Abigail Williams, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • More than 500 cases of rape — including rape by armed forces, gang rape, and forced rape of family members — have been reported in Tigray.
    — Michelle Gulino and Malaak Jamal, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Three days after her gang rape, feeling alone, scared, and a burden to the rest of the camp, Sarah drove herself down the mountain and away from the place that had once been a refuge, but was now a trauma zone.
    — Rachel Sturtz, Outside Online, 19 June 2019
  • News of the gang rape allegations initially broke with a Los Angeles Times story in June.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The city also hired private lawyers and went to trial against Stanley Wrice, who spent 31 years in prison for a vicious gang rape before a judge threw out his conviction.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • At least six other incidents of people directly witnessing rapes and gang rapes are outlined in the report, with all of the witnesses describing victims being shot dead.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
  • Most recently, prosecutors ordered the arrests of a group of men allegedly involved in a 2014 gang rape in Cairo.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2020
  • In 2012, a brutal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus in Delhi sent shock waves across the world and made the city notorious for being unsafe for women.
    — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
  • The United Nations human rights office says 13 women and girls have alleged rape and gang rape by security forces during the recent protests.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Described by police as a gang rape, the case has added fuel to outrage in a nation where reports of violence against women have surged in recent months, sparking nationwide protests and a flurry of digital activism.
    — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026

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