How to Use posse in a Sentence

posse

noun
  • I went to the game with my posse.
  • The sheriff and his posse rode out to look for the bandits.
  • Now there’s a posse chasing her.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • There are 50 pieces of James and his posse.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • If there was any substance to that, the posse failed to reach the barn.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • One of them was shot 400 times by a posse who tracked him down.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Thomas was killed by a posse when he was shot more than 400 times.
    — Fox News, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Each member of the pal posse brought her own brand of aid and comfort.
    — Sharon Peters, USA TODAY, 27 June 2017
  • There's nothing quite like a posse of zombie back-up dancers.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2022
  • There's nothing quite like a posse of zombie back-up dancers.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2022
  • But this posse of blue-eyed, speckled kittens was easy to find.
    — National Geographic, 21 June 2018
  • Still, your comment might be just what someone in your posse needs to hear.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Think of it as a mini cruise ship that can take you and your posse below the waves.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 May 2022
  • Williams brought a small posse and sported a yellow shorts and blazer set.
    — Anika Reed, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The stranger blew his whistle; in an instant, a posse appeared.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • As the sounds come closer, a dozen-strong posse, all wearing face masks, passes by.
    — Billboard, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Smart money would be that Bielema attempts to beat the posse out of town.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Fox added that someone in Elordi’s posse pulled the actor off.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
  • And the crowd of stunned pedestrians formed into a posse, dozens of them giving chase.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Zeus and his posse of younger gods launched a military coup on Atlas and his top brass.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Far from bringing in a posse, the emails would prove to be the new police chief’s undoing.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2021
  • Travis Bishop’s great-grandfather rode with the posse.
    — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Each has a crew of one hunter and a posse of oarsmen and steersmen (two of the latter are Black).
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • There are just three giant robots standing between a posse of massive bugs and the end of the world.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Though Norman never took the gun out of his car, white residents formed a posse to find him.
    — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • In the film’s most effective set-piece, Rufus’ posse stop a train and bust him out of a heavy iron vault.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Others threatened the monkeys that wouldn’t let Punch join their posses.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The man was surrounded by his posse who was filming him on a phone and carrying a bag of boxing gloves.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • That’s also the case with a pair of posse cuts with artists boasting different specialties.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • One county in Missouri has a posse of 17 new sheriff's deputies, all of them less than a year old.
    — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2019

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