How to Use gangway in a Sentence

gangway

noun
  • Now Don Walsh, who was eighty-eight, walked up the gangway of the Pressure Drop.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
  • The boardwalk has two spaces that jut off the main gangway.
    Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Three men got out of the car, ran up a gangway and jumped over a fence before shooting.
    Elyssa Cherney, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • He is then surrounded, dragged to a gangway, forced to the ground and handcuffed.
    James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • Clipper card users simply tap on and off on the gangways.
    Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The man was outside when someone came out of a gangway and shot him, police said.
    Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2017
  • MacRae had been up since 3 a.m., surveying the scene as commuters walked up the gangway.
    Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 1 May 2017
  • Police said three men were in the gangway shooting at each other when one of the bullets grazed the boy’s hand.
    Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • At the gangway, about the only welcome comes from the pastor at the seaman’s church who offers the crew a ride somewhere.
    Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The ship's doom was hastened when crewman opened a gangway door to try to load lifeboats from a lower level.
    Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Aid workers awaiting their arrival clapped and cheered as the first migrants walked down the gangway.
    Renata Brito, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
  • One witness identified Heath as the person running away from the gangway around the time of the attack.
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • There would be no sneaking up the gangway, the narrow metal plank for boarding.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Two other people also got out of the car and Luster and one of them walked into the gangway toward the two girls.
    Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Police said the victim was outside when someone emerged from a gangway and opened fire, striking him in the leg.
    Deanese Williams-Harris, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Others congregated on Lafayette, where shell casings were found on the mouth of the gangway of the crime scene and inside the patch of reeds on the sidewalk.
    Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The man was standing in the gangway in the 7800 block of South Maryland Avenue when two people walked up and began firing.
    Deanese Williams-Harris, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • After disembarking the ship, the check-in for my excursion is right at the gangway.
    You, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The woman then started screaming, and the attacker fled east through a gangway on the south side of the property, police said.
    Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • But Cornero’s crew barricaded the gangway and flung huge nets over the sides of the ship, according to a United Press account of the drama.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • The same company installed the terminal’s first gangway more than a dozen years ago for about $2.6 million.
    al, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The man ran into a gangway and officers chased after him, Alfaro said.
    Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • The ship, with passengers aboard, struck a gangway that collapsed on three parked vehicles.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Four-wheelers politely take turns bumping up and over the gangway, then, after loading up, wait for space to turn around to return up the ramp.
    Megan Bush Moody, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 June 2017
  • Shortly afterward, fisherman Geno Holmes leaned on a truck and watched in awe as Oliver walked up a steep gangway to shore.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Her son and her friend were moving a treadmill toward her minivan when three teens emerged from a nearby gangway and opened fire, the affidavit states.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • In the near future, Amazon, too, may extend its tentacles down towards the gangway.
    Jennifer Baljko, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Should there be any stowaway bedbugs, direct contact with your bedding is their gangway to board your bed and treat you as their evening buffet.
    Erica Silverstein, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2020
  • She’s drawn to a story that’s as unpredictable as the moment when the Phantom suddenly appears on a gangway high above the audience.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There used to be a sign posted right outside an old, two-story house on the south side of 22nd Street in Chicago Heights, separated from its neighbors only by narrow gangways.
    Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023

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