How to Use tear gas in a Sentence

tear gas

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Television footage showed tear gas and officers in the streets as night fell in the port city.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 1 July 2023
• Then, the police started firing tear gas into the stands.
  — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• During two protests, clouds of tear gas blanketing the courthouse square and Big Spring Park.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2022
• Congress had been evacuated; the air was full of tear gas.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• The truth is that the vast majority of kids never even saw a barricade or got a whiff of tear gas.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2023
• The munitions included tear gas, flash bangs and flares.
  — Aisyah Llewellyn, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• For it, Duncan went to both conventions and was on the streets of Chicago amid the tear gas, although no image of it is found in this book.
  — Darryl Levings, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• Police attacked one of the buses, shooting tear gas through the windows to force students out.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• And in Portland, the nights were filled with marching, chanting, tear gas and violence.
  — Dave Killen, oregonlive, 23 July 2023
• Reuters reported that tear gas was used to disperse crowds outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• They were later dispersed from embassy grounds with tear gas.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• During the protest, officers deployed tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 15 July 2022
• Video showed apparent smoke from tear gas near a bridge where mourners had gathered near the village of Veysian.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
• The riot police fired tear gas canisters into the crowd.
  — Will Cathcart, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• The Reuters reporter at the scene said peacekeepers fired tear gas and live bullets at the crowd, killing two and wounding at least two others.
  — Reuters, CNN, 26 July 2022
• Roberts and Belden were both caught in tear gas during protests in downtown Portland, according to the lawsuit.
  — oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022
• Israeli forces responded with live fire, tear gas and stun grenades.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Mar. 2023
• The gunshot and the tear gas immediately quieted the crowd.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• In Patras, Greece’s third-most populous city, police fired tear gas at crowds on March 8.
  — Leila Barghouty, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at first, to try to repel the demonstrators.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
• Soon after, agents of the national police used tear gas to disperse the group of residents.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• To keep the crowd at bay, a security official or Marine guard fired tear gas.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• One of his company had sold tear gas to the Israeli army and — crime-of-crimes — Kanders is a Republican.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
• Clouds of tear gas blanketed the courthouse square as state helicopters flew overhead and snipers peered down from the courthouse roof.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2023
• Police threw tear gas canisters into the crowd, and some fans were shot outside the stadium.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024