How to Use gate in a Sentence

gate

1 of 2 noun
  • And that opened the gates, man.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 18 May 2026
  • And the flood gates went from there.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The gate has a stall for each horse.
    — Javier Zarracina, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • There are no gates, or street lights.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
  • More here, plus a map of the new gates.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
  • Things like… What shape is the gate?
    — Scott Snowden, Space.com, 15 Feb. 2026
  • San Jose looked great out of the gates.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, Duerr missed the first gate.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • It was fenced in by a baby gate.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Prices will be higher at the gate.
    — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Stoddard had a great pace out of the gate.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Lines at the gates moved quickly.
    — Miami Herald, 16 June 2026
  • The school is empty, its gates locked.
    — ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The school is empty, its gates locked.
    — ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But things did not go as smoothly at the gate.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • There is no teammate to ski the last few gates.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The gates are wrought iron and greystone.
    — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But many at the meeting spoke out against gates.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
  • The cooler will be searched and tagged at the gate.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The amount of signs, airport staff and gates, etc.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • What that means is Spenser skis about a gate ahead of her.
    — ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Here's why gates can change at the airport at the last minute.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2026
  • When do gates open at Coachella?
    — Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The Knicks could struggle out of the gate.
    — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • When do gates open at Stagecoach?
    — Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This new code used lots of non-Clifford gates.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • And, yes, Jung is scorching balls out of the gate.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Ely even removed a gate to give the pup an easy exit.
    — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This, not 24 hours after egg-gate!
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Not giving yourself enough time to get to your gate.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

gate

2 of 2 verb
  • Door to gate, the journey took just about two hours.
    — Joshua Mellin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Themes are also gated by payment tiers.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 30 May 2026
  • The road is gated on both ends and will be opened only in emergencies.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Airports are rolling out a wave of new automation to speed trips from curb to gate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2025
  • History should not be rele-gated to a dusty corner.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Still, not everyone is opposed to gate-checking bags.
    — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Visitors must call ahead as entrance is gated.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
  • It is gated; the sheriff’s report did not say how the suspects got past the barrier.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • One central process drags every machine along the same shaft, gated by the slowest manual step.
    — Charlie Gautreaux, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • These videos are age-gated to 18 and older and cannot appear in the feeds of underage accounts.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Pillay, wearing black clothing and hot-pink shoes, ran with Soto to the visitors’ gate.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The bustling and slightly tourist-filled streets are just outside the structure, and it's not gated, but pleasantly open to the public.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In defense, mission-solution fit is the gating factor.
    — Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The good news here is that OpenAI will be subject to the same power gating as everyone else.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The team, meanwhile, escapes by beaming the Stargate aboard to gate out before returning via the second gate.
    — Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Overhead bin space was limited—as expected on a smaller regional plane—and some passengers were asked to gate-check their bags.
    — Tiana Schippa, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Each of the seven LCA studies cover production stages from cradle to gate.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 30 Mar. 2026
  • It’s gated by latency—the new bottleneck, and the new benchmark, for AI in motion.
    — Ivo Ivanov, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And unlike previous models, it’s not gated behind a paywall or locked away in enterprise software.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The driveway is gated, bending past a nearly football-field-size, 22-foot-deep pond that serves as both scenery and infrastructure.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
  • As for the overhead bin concern, most airlines offer to gate check bags for free when bins fill up, so your luggage still arrives at your destination at no extra cost.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026
  • If access is gated early, inequality will be hardwired into the future.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The experienced traveller might make it from taxi to gate in a tight twenty-five, passed from station to station as seamlessly as an electron in a circuit.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Unlike the ancient alchemists’ guilds or modern elites, science is not secret, nor gated by family descent or social ties.
    — Micah Altman, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Simple, but again, the full functionality is gated behind a subscription.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • After the park reopens, the Secret Service wants to install a gating system to quickly secure the area if needed.
    — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • Vocals are sped up into squiggles, instruments are reversed and gated, percussion smacks you in the face and then suddenly vanishes.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The new trains are faster, capable speeds of up to 160 miles per hour, while most of Amtrak's current rolling stock is gated at 125 miles per hour.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • At the time of the shooting, Manis said, pointing to photographs on a nearby television, gates to the fence around the building and parking lot appeared to be open.
    — Lucas Finton, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Those measures, however, have alarmed privacy advocates, who argue that age-gating the internet would affect all users — not just children.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 30 June 2026

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