How to Use tear gas in a Sentence

tear gas

noun

• An agent appeared to shoot tear gas to push the crowd back.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
• Throughout this, there was the tear gas, which wouldn’t stop.
  — Adam Leventhal, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
• At one point, the police set off tear gas and Wexler and his crew are caught in the fray.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
• Of the medics who guide people under the shade of a tree and flush the tear gas out of their eyes.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 24 June 2020
• The use of tear gas has been a flashpoint issue in the aftermath of the protests.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 3 July 2021
• The soldiers had thrown tear gas at them, forcing them to flee.
  — Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• The gunman, who had sealed off doors and used tear gas, was sentenced to life in prison.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• On April 19, in an effort to end the siege, the FBI used tear gas to try to force members out of the compound.
  — Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
• Two weeks later, the acrid smell of tear gas was no longer strong in her apartment.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
• First, she was hit with tear gas at an Atlanta protest for Floyd on June 2.
  — Porsha Williams, PEOPLE.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Scuffles broke out and the security forces fired tear gas and shot in the air, the four said.
  — Ahmed Al-Haj and Samy Magdy, Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Three nights of protests were met with tear gas, flashbangs and arrests.
  — Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022
• The winds were in the protesters’ favor, and most of the tear gas blew back toward the police line.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Riot police used tear gas and clashed with some in the crowd as trash bins were set on fire.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Bohmer’s tires were slashed and tear gas canisters were placed in his car.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• Then the police march in front of the camera, and begin firing tear gas.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• Scott said officers told him to leave his home to avoid tear gas fumes.
  — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• Police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowd but failed and more and more marched down the lane and towards the office.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 July 2022
• Police tried to contain the crowds with tear gas and pellet guns.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• Three council members call for a probe of who made the call to use tear gas on the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge.
  — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2020
• In the day, water cannons, tear gas, gunfire, and more.
  — Amy Gunia, Time, 18 Mar. 2021
• Wauwatosa police formed a perimeter around city haul and deployed tear gas to clear the crowds around 11 p.m.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2020
• Police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• Security threw tear gas at us, and the guys threw it back at them.
  — Rebecca McCray, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021
• With helmets, goggles and gas masks at the ready, they were prepared for tear gas....
  — Alicia A. Caldwell, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2020
• In both incidents, the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Lisa Fazio, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
• There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.
  — Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
• The explosive crack of tear gas in the hallways outside.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, chicagotribune.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• In response, federal agents deployed less-lethal weapons and tear gas at the protesters, while employees were being arrested inside the cannabis grow house.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 13 July 2025
• Authorities eventually deployed chemical agents (likely tear gas) near the Pickle Building to disperse the crowd.
  — Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 8 July 2025