How to Use tear gas in a Sentence

tear gas

noun

• At one point, the police set off tear gas and Wexler and his crew are caught in the fray.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
• On April 19, in an effort to end the siege, the FBI used tear gas to try to force members out of the compound.
  — Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
• Two weeks later, the acrid smell of tear gas was no longer strong in her apartment.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
• Three nights of protests were met with tear gas, flashbangs and arrests.
  — Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022
• Riot police used tear gas and clashed with some in the crowd as trash bins were set on fire.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Bohmer’s tires were slashed and tear gas canisters were placed in his car.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• Then the police march in front of the camera, and begin firing tear gas.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• Police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowd but failed and more and more marched down the lane and towards the office.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 July 2022
• Police tried to contain the crowds with tear gas and pellet guns.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• Police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• Security threw tear gas at us, and the guys threw it back at them.
  — Rebecca McCray, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021
• In both incidents, the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Lisa Fazio, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
• The explosive crack of tear gas in the hallways outside.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, chicagotribune.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• Television footage showed tear gas and officers in the streets as night fell in the port city.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 1 July 2023
• Then people got mad about the tear gas and started running.
  — USA Today, 30 Sep. 2021
• Police, who had warned of fines and arrests, used tear gas to disperse crowds.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• Reporters were hit with tear gas, lamp posts were ripped down and a news van was flipped over, Belculfine said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Then, the police started firing tear gas into the stands.
  — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• During two protests, clouds of tear gas blanketing the courthouse square and Big Spring Park.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2022
• Congress had been evacuated; the air was full of tear gas.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• Police were called in, and two students were shot and killed by a sheriff’ deputy while tear gas was being used on the crowd.
  — Lisa Fazio, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
• The truth is that the vast majority of kids never even saw a barricade or got a whiff of tear gas.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2023
• Facente said the warning did not come until the second canister of tear gas was launched.
  — Lillian Boyd, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2022
• The Delhi police baton-charged the protesters and used tear gas on them.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2021
• There were reports Polish border police used tear gas to push back the crowd, and in some videos, the sounds of gunshots could be heard.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 9 Nov. 2021
• Who can authorize the use of tear gas or less-lethal munitions?
  — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2024
• The munitions included tear gas, flash bangs and flares.
  — Aisyah Llewellyn, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• Her emotions only seem to surface as a result of tear gas.
  — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021
• The streets were filled with tear gas, gunfire, and flames launched by government sympathizers.
  — Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024
• In Rome’s central Piazzale Ostiense, hooded protesters threw stones, bottles, and even a street sign at the police, who responded using water cannons and tear gas.
  — Sylvie Corbet and Giada Zampano, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024