How to Use gang up in a Sentence

gang up

verb
Definition of gang upnext
Synonyms for gang upnext
  • The result: toxic friends gang up on one or more people.
    — Kathleen Felton, Health, 2 May 2023
  • All the kids gang up to administer a beatdown on Aemond.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Elaborate floats and costumes abound during the Marche while the Nain taunts revelers, who gang up to drive him back out of the city and restore peace.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Throughout the night, Machine Gun Kelly bemoaned the Internet for serving as a platform for haters to gang up on him for much of his career.
    — cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Go all-in with your besties and claim the Honeymoon Suite for your group with its twin soaking tubs and double disco balls, and invite the gang up for a throwback night straight out of Studio 54.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Unlike their less-aggressive cousin the turkey vulture, black vultures are known to gang up and prey on living calves, piglets, lambs and newborn goats.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Add the prospect that small investors stirred by Reddit might gang up on you, and the reluctance of money managers to take a short bet becomes more understandable.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • When Olivia dropped Sour, a majority of her fans ganged up against Joshua and his fans, creating major online drama.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Inadequate enclosures allegedly allowed a group of tigers to gang up on and kill an aging big cat.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • That's especially true when multiple enemies gang up to attack you from all sides.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The program is famous for sometimes fiery debates among the co-hosts, especially when the more liberal hosts gang up on conservative voices.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The Financial Times and other media outlets have decided to gang up on Apple over its China exposure.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Several of the bachelors used the opportunity to gang up on bachelor Hunter Montgomery, but Allio was mostly quiet during the debate.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 13 July 2021
  • Mao justified enhanced surveillance and repression of the population on the grounds that Chiang and the American imperialists were ganging up on the new Communist state.
    — Jane Perlez, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Basically, don't give other countries, particularly the United States, any pretext to prematurely gang up on China, limit its economic growth, limit its accumulation of economic and other forms of power on the international stage.
    — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021

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