chain gang

noun

plural chain gangs

: a group of people (such as convicts) chained together especially as an outside working party

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Videos posted to social media showed a member of the chain gang collapsed on the sideline and medical staff attending to the person. —

Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2024 Miller said that despite testing such technology, along with the use of chain gangs this preseason, the NFL isn’t yet ready to move forward with this change. —

Mike Jones, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024 Inmates are sentenced to time behind bars, not forced labor, a vestige of chain gangs and slavery. —

George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 In a chain gang sequence, Robeson is shot from low angle, full frame, head-to-toe, bare-chested, in striped pants, in leg irons, hammering rocks with a sledgehammer, radiating an energy that cannot be shackled. —

Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chain gang