How to Use gang in a Sentence

gang

noun
  • He is in a gang.
  • He was shot by a member of a rival gang.
  • The images showed the gang breaking the vault's glass with an axe.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • The all-girl gang even modeled their all-white fits in the cutest TikTok video.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 6 July 2023
  • The two gang leaders, Mr. Macías and Mr. Colón, remained at large.
    Annie Correal, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Killings have surged in Ecuador as drug gangs have shaken the country.
    Ryan Dubé, WSJ, 7 June 2023
  • The war between the two teenage gangs would not only change the nature of malware.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • By the time a blurry spectral figure appears, the gang is geared up and ready for a fight.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • This book tracks a gang of con men, led by a man who died in a Kansas City hotel in 1904.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The Times points out that Peter's brother is the one who footed the bill to fly the whole gang to Paris, with the adults all sitting in first class.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Afeni Shakur, former leader of a street gang, was one of these recruits.
    Keisha N. Blain, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Then he was killed by his own gang in a Chicago story that shocked the nation 25 years ago.
    Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2023
  • There was the one about a gang initiation in Little Rock.
    Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Street gangs and the KKK exist, and the people in these little platoons conspire to do bad things.
    Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Some missions in the game will include heists and gang rivalries.
    Lily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Last summer the gang hosted four lobster bakes there with 350 tickets each that all sold out in a day.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • LaFortune’s husband heard news that gangs were closing in on Saint-Marc.
    Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Senior staff had flopped down on the couch in Klein’s office, discussing a camper who had been sent home for flashing a gang sign.
    Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Senior staff had flopped down on the couch in Ms. Klein’s office, discussing a camper who had been sent home for flashing a gang sign.
    Ellen Barry Brittainy Newman, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Here was what appeared to be a rip crew, a local gang that stalked smuggling trails and stole from migrants or guides.
    Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The bank appears to be the latest victim of the prolific ransomware gang known as Lockbit.
    WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Two of the gang reportedly ripped the watch off the wrist of a businessman who was shopping with his wife and daughter, shoving his wife to the ground in the process.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Haiti is the middle of a crisis and is without a government as gangs in Port-au-Prince prevent one.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
  • If Carrefour-Feuilles should fall into gang control, the fear is the sliver of Port-au-Prince that has remained out of the gangs’ hands will soon fall as well.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The whole gang are Beats by Dre’s first family brand ambassadors.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
  • After all this time, the gang’s ties to one another are still montage-level deep.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Our testing gang consisted of two adults and two young children.
    Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2023
  • The two actors lead Jeff Nichols’ gang drama alongside Jodie Comer.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • As a result, its gangs have millions to arm themselves to fight the authorities.
    Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Officials say Marie Odette Franklin was allegedly shot and killed by the gang members.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023

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