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
• But the back of the living area gives way to a railing, a gangway, and stairs down to a dining area.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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
• To enter the building, guests had to walk across a makeshift wooden bridge laid atop one of the gangways.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The limousines of the prime minister and his lackeys are parked beside the gangway.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
• After disembarking the ship, the check-in for my excursion is right at the gangway.
  — You, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• An estimated 20 people fell into the water, and as many as 40 could have been on the gangway at the time of the failure, Rabon said.
  — John Deem, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Officer Fernando Ruiz, who followed Clay into the gangway, ordered him to drop the gun, and then opened fire.
  — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024