How to Use tear gas in a Sentence

tear gas

1 of 2 noun

• Agents used tear gas to break up the protest.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• Beyond the fumes of tear gas grenades.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
• And most clashes end in tear gas.
  — Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• Then, troopers turned to tear gas.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
• Forrest pushed it and winced as tear gas sprayed.
  — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• There’s no more tear gas or pepper balls in the streets.
  — Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
• Throughout this, there was the tear gas, which wouldn’t stop.
  — Adam Leventhal, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
• They have been met with tear gas and rubber bullets.
  — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
• Each time the tear gas seeped in, the kids coughed, and their throats often burned.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 7 May 2026
• In some instances, children have been hit with tear gas.
  — Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
• The soldiers had thrown tear gas at them, forcing them to flee.
  — Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• Scott said officers told him to leave his home to avoid tear gas fumes.
  — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• Three nights of protests were met with tear gas, flashbangs and arrests.
  — Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022
• Bohmer’s tires were slashed and tear gas canisters were placed in his car.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• 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
• Agents fired pepper balls, flash bangs and tear gas to try to disperse the crowd.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Security threw tear gas at us, and the guys threw it back at them.
  — Rebecca McCray, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021
• Police dispersed crowds near Bastille with clouds of tear gas.
  — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2020
• Police tried to contain the crowds with tear gas and pellet guns.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• Police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• Police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd.
  — Reuters, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026
• There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.
  — Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
• In the wide world outside, a hail of tear gas and rubber bullets rained down.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
• Police used batons, tear gas, and live fire to disperse the crowd.
  — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Police, who had warned of fines and arrests, used tear gas to disperse crowds.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• Crowds began to gather, and a clash soon broke out, ending with tear gas.
  — Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026

tear-gas

2 of 2 verb

• People are driving their kids home from basketball practice getting tear-gassed.
  — ABC News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Even men and women of faith can be tear-gassed, wrestled to the ground, and handcuffed by ICE agents.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
• With their escape route blocked by protesters and their cars, the agents tossed out tear-gas canisters, the white clouds billowing up into the winter air.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• One snake got tear-gassed by police, then shot at five times, and still escaped—only to finally meet its match with a garden hoe (obviously).
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
• Pretti had kicked the taillight of a law enforcement vehicle – and was then tackled and tear-gassed by agents – 11 days before he was killed.
  — Luke William Hunt, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2026
• Children, small children and babies, being tear-gassed, taken into custody, separated from their parents.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Jan. 2026
• Federal officers have shot munitions at his face respirator and at his back, and launched a tear-gas canister that sparked next to his leg and burned a hole in his costume, the complaint says.
  — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
• Bovino appeared in federal court Tuesday to face questions surrounding the incident and other tear-gas deployments in the city.
  — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• Instruments and voices accumulate into immense, sustained, saturating dissonances, with a snare drum cutting through the tear-gas haze.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
• Agents have been accused of arresting citizens without probable cause, pointing weapons at people, tear-gassing neighborhoods, among other allegations of violent behavior.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
• Families who live near an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, felt the effects inside their homes when officers tear-gassed the protesters who routinely gathered there.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 7 May 2026
• In June 2022, Luis Berkman was sentenced to 38 months in the Bolivian tear-gas case, but it was later reduced to 32 months for his cooperation.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
• Now 78, Mauldin watches the news and sees videos and pictures of children being tear-gassed again — not by local police in 1965, but by federal immigration officers in 2026.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
• On Friday a federal judge ruled that immigration officers cannot detain or tear-gas peaceful protesters who are not obstructing authorities, including while observing officers during the Minnesota crackdown.
  — Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
• Screaming people being torn from their families, Americans –- people who were born in the United States — being pulled out of their cars for the crime of having an accent or whatever, children –- small children, babies — being tear-gassed, taken into custody, separated from their parents.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
• In the days since an ICE officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, stories have circulated of federal agents (from both ICE and Border Patrol) pepper-spraying and tear-gassing families and students, and shoving a protester into oncoming traffic.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026