How to Use chain gang in a Sentence

chain gang

noun

• The origins of the law can be traced back to when chain gangs were common in the late 1920s.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 7 June 2018
• All day with the chain gang for 30 days, feed and clothe us and everything.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
• The league likes the drama of a chain gang stretching to measure for that first down.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• The white boys really turned the prison camp into a chain gang.
  — Winfred Rembert, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• There were probably more good guys on the chain gang than bad.
  — Winfred Rembert, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Even Jughead, boy leader of a chain gang, is creeped out.
  — refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Jim Harbaugh meanwhile was on the sidelines at a youth football game in the chain gang.
  — Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
• Hickmon, who had been handling the down marker as part of the three-man chain gang during the game, went to retrieve it.
  — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
• Kupp must be the greatest player ever because when the Rams don’t target him, the chain gang can snooze.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
• Godwin, who has a police court record, was sentenced to five months on the chain gang by Recorder Ivey this morning.
  — The Root, 3 Nov. 2017
• Sloppy day for the chain gang, which was slow to change the down and distance markers, prompting a couple of play delays.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Convict Springs, which flows into the Suwannee River, was so named because in the 1900s, prison chain gangs working on road projects would set up camps there.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• 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
• Komie once had a client who had escaped a chain gang 25 years earlier and the governor declined to send him back to Mississippi.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Unable to pay the fine, and with no support from those who benefitted from her bold advocacy, she was sentenced to a men’s chain gang.
  — Ashlee Marie Preston, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2021
• The band members then spend the rest of the video trying to outrun fans, getting into a fight with a chain gang, speeding through a mini market and even jumping off a roof to evade capture.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2023
• One idea: Use real chain gangs, prisoners chained together at the ankles.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2017
• Two men of different races, who hate each other, escape from a chain gang shackled together.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• The Saints coach strives for lasers instead of the chain gang to handle down and distance (basically goodbye to index cards determining a first down).
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Shortly after taking office in 2013, Ivey sought advice from Arpaio in Arizona and instituted a chain gang, in which jail inmates worked on the side of the road in striped uniforms.
  — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2020
• Arpaio forced his prisoners to march in pink underwear, work in chain gangs, shower in boiling-hot water, and eat rotten food (the sheriff boasted about this last point).
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 May 2018
• Rustin, a prominent civil rights leader, spent 22 days working on a prison chain gang in Roxboro, North Carolina.
  — Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 21 June 2022
• In 1933, Langston Hughes wrote an essay on black incarceration for the Soviet edition of a novel about chain gangs.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 27 July 2019
• Fire rescue staff and deputies stood shoulder to shoulder and clustered in groups, as did a chain gang of half a dozen inmates wearing striped jumpsuits, orange trucker hats and chains clanking around their ankles.
  — Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2020
• The factory’s sweeper, Jim Conley, was sentenced to a year on a chain gang as an accessory to the murder, but no one else was ever convicted of killing Mary Phagan.
  — Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2023
• Over decades, county sheriffs rounded up thousands of Black men with phony charges and trapped them in the convict leasing system – whose chain gangs were often run by former slave drivers.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
• Rembert was born in Georgia, worked in cotton fields as a child, spent time in jail — including for civil-rights protests against Jim Crow segregation laws — served on a chain gang and survived a lynching attempt.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2022
• There was a man in the town of Spear [N.C., Wilson’s grandmother’s hometown] at the bottom of the mountain who was on a chain gang, accused of raping a white woman, and convicted by the jury that deliberated for five minutes.
  — Jacquinn Sinclair, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023