How to Use gangway in a Sentence

gangway

noun
  • Only the young climb the masts, run to and fro on the gangways, and bail the hold.
    — Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Stevens had been trying to get home from a nearby bar when she was found in the gangway.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Stevens had been trying to get home from a nearby bar when she was found in the gangway.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Three men got out of the car, ran up a gangway and jumped over a fence before shooting.
    — Elyssa Cherney, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The man was outside when someone came out of a gangway and shot him, police said.
    — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2017
  • He is then surrounded, dragged to a gangway, forced to the ground and handcuffed.
    — James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • To enter the building, guests had to walk across a makeshift wooden bridge laid atop one of the gangways.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But the back of the living area gives way to a railing, a gangway, and stairs down to a dining area.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
  • There would be no sneaking up the gangway, the narrow metal plank for boarding.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The technicians had used the ship's gangway to walk onto the turbine and stood at its base.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Aid workers awaiting their arrival clapped and cheered as the first migrants walked down the gangway.
    — Renata Brito, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
  • The ship's doom was hastened when crewman opened a gangway door to try to load lifeboats from a lower level.
    — Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Police said three men were in the gangway shooting at each other when one of the bullets grazed the boy’s hand.
    — Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The crew lowered a gangway and local port staff came to greet us on electric snowmobiles.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The soldiers ordered us to grab our bags and passports and marched us to the gangway to disembark.
    — Emily Wilder, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Police said the victim was outside when someone emerged from a gangway and opened fire, striking him in the leg.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • So fans packed onto stairwells, gangways and open areas, searching for a glimpse of the action.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Jones said a gangway at the dock collapsed, plunging people into the water.
    — Russ Bynum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Everybody thinks there’s all these people making a gangway for you, waving you on.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2025
  • That means no gangways, no crew spaces, no ventilation, no stores, no controls, and no bridge.
    — David Szondy august 13, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Now Don Walsh, who was eighty-eight, walked up the gangway of the Pressure Drop.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
  • After disembarking the ship, the check-in for my excursion is right at the gangway.
    — You, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • However, from in here, there's a small gangway that leads to a second loft space which can be used as a third bedroom or for storage.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The technicians had used the ship’s gangway to walk onto the turbine and stood at its base, or foundation.
    — Jennifer McDermott, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The limousines of the prime minister and his lackeys are parked beside the gangway.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • At the gangway, about the only welcome comes from the pastor at the seaman’s church who offers the crew a ride somewhere.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The man ran into a gangway and officers chased after him, Alfaro said.
    — Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Should there be any stowaway bedbugs, direct contact with your bedding is their gangway to board your bed and treat you as their evening buffet.
    — Erica Silverstein, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Two other people also got out of the car and Luster and one of them walked into the gangway toward the two girls.
    — Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • One witness identified Heath as the person running away from the gangway around the time of the attack.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2021

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