gate-crashing

present participle of gate-crash

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gate-crashing
Verb
  • Moths can also fly in through open windows and doors or find their way inside after invading bird nests in chimneys.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Freddy Krueger thrives in this exact space, invading his victims’ sleep while terrorizing their imagination.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tea is approached by PET and tasked with infiltrating the criminal empire of Miran, a ruthless criminal posing as a businessman.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Billitier did have a hell of a story to tell about his decades of undercover work for the FBI, including several years infiltrating a Colombian drug ring in Texas.
    Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The men who play in the NFL would have something to say to today’s workers about the encroaching techno-supervision.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The White House is nonetheless fielding complaints, made in private and public, from Republicans who believe Trump is encroaching on Congress’s power of taxation and threatening to send the United States into an economic backslide.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This ruling is a chilling step toward unchecked government overreach, intruding on the most personal aspects of our private lives.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If a relatively unknown freelance journalist was suddenly intruding on their good time, perhaps someone had put him up to it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On Monday, authorities received reports of a shirtless man trespassing at a residence in Bedias – located about 150 miles south of Alvarado – the previous day, the Grimes County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Hundreds of participants have been charged with crimes ranging from trespassing to assault and seditious conspiracy.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The plane then lifted slightly off the ground before crashing and exploding in a huge fireball.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That plane, an Airbus A300-600F, was found to have descended at an unsafe altitude, crashing and killing both members on board.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Gate-crashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate-crashing. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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