How to Use gang rape in a Sentence
gang rape
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And in 2013, six men were sentenced to life in prison for the gang rape of a Swiss tourist.
—CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
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Those found guilty of gang rape will be sentenced to death or life in prison.
—Sophia Saifi, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
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One was the account of this gang rape given to us by this source, Jackie.
—David Marchese, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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There have also been protests against the gang rape of a woman in the northeastern area of Sylhet.
—Arun Devnath, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2020
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With that being said, a three-minute scene showing a gang rape is not mandatory to get the message across, Jeglic says.
—Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
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Those whom Lamb interviewed told her that gang rape was so frequent that some women took their own lives.
—Lindsey Hilsum, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
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The alleged gang rape involves a group of young men from wealthy and powerful families.
—Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2020
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The dark underside of this strange mix recently came to light again after a brutal gang rape in June of a 27-year-old Georgian tourist.
—Kate Brady, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
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In 2020 they were found guilty of offenses ranging from negligence of duty to gang rape.
—New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
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Three days after her gang rape, feeling alone, scared, and a burden to the rest of the camp, Sarah drove herself down the mountain and away from the place that had once been a refuge, but was now a trauma zone.
—Rachel Sturtz, Outside Online, 19 June 2019
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Some patients spoke of gang rapes, others said they were touched inappropriately by men at checkpoints in El Geneina and on the way to Chad.
—Abigail Williams, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2023
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Araiza is named in a civil lawsuit alleging he was involved with other San Diego State players in a gang rape of a teenager.
—Schuyler Dixon, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2022
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Araiza is named in a civil lawsuit alleging he was involved with other San Diego State players in a gang rape of a teenager last fall.
—Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
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The city also hired private lawyers and went to trial against Stanley Wrice, who spent 31 years in prison for a vicious gang rape before a judge threw out his conviction.
—Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
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Kagan recalls having to prepare an appeal in the case of a Salvadoran girl who had barely escaped a gang rape.
—Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
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In 2012, a brutal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus in Delhi sent shock waves across the world and made the city notorious for being unsafe for women.
—Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
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More than 500 cases of rape — including rape by armed forces, gang rape, and forced rape of family members — have been reported in Tigray.
—Michelle Gulino and Malaak Jamal, CNN, 25 May 2021
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Her lawsuit against four other defendants accused of gang rape will go on and is set for trial in February.
—Teri Figueroa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
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News of the gang rape allegations initially broke with a Los Angeles Times story in June.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
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The case drew widespread interest in the U.K. and Israel after initial reports that the woman was the victim of a gang rape evolved into her being charged with making up claims of rape.
—Menelaos Hadjicostis, ajc, 16 Sep. 2021
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Most recently, prosecutors ordered the arrests of a group of men allegedly involved in a 2014 gang rape in Cairo.
—Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2020
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Laura told the Washington Post in 2013 that Blake was disturbed by the book’s depictions of (spoiler alert) bestiality, gang rape, and the murder of an infant.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2021
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In retaliation for the gang rape, groups of residents torched shacks belonging to the zama zamas.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
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Last month’s alleged gang rape in Catania has become not only a symbol of violence against women in the country, but a cause célèbre for Italy’s far-right government.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
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While awaiting trial in jail, Helterbrand was charged again, this time with helping members of a hate gang rape another inmate with a toothbrush.
—James Verini, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
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The United Nations human rights office says 13 women and girls have alleged rape and gang rape by security forces during the recent protests.
—Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
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Her lawsuit against four other defendants accused of gang rape remains and is set for trial in February.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2023
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In the fifth episode, a flashback details the violent gang rape of the show’s female protagonist, Lucky (Deborah Ayorinde), as her baby is murdered in front of her in a monstrous kind of game.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
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Araiza was accused in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Southern California of participating in the gang rape of a then-17-year-old female.
—Sal Maiorana, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2022
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One is Siddique Kappan, who was charged with sedition and conspiracy to incite violence for trying to report on the gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman.
—Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 May 2022
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