How to Use gaggle in a Sentence

gaggle

noun
  • On the flight home to D.C., Dr. Biden came to the back of the plane for an off-the-record gaggle.
    Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue, 29 June 2021
  • At the tail end of his gaggle, this reporter called out to Kennedy.
    Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Avoid a gaggle of small, same-size pots, which will look busy and unplanned.
    Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 11 May 2018
  • Bell Labs hired a gaggle of computer whizzes in the 1970s.
    Elizabeth Stinson, WIRED, 10 May 2018
  • At one point, a gaggle of bikers roared past us on one side.
    Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • For now, the biggest question was where to take their gaggle of kids for brunch.
    Thomas Simonetti, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Their sons — ages 8 and 11 — will soon be home from school, along with a gaggle of Hershey girls.
    New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Somehow, it’s been a decade since fans got their last taste of the gaggle at MacLaren’s Pub.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Friday's outrage over the gaggle in Spicer's office is a hint of things to come.
    The Hive, 27 Feb. 2017
  • A gaggle of ladies three rows in front of me were having the most fun taking group pictures.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 May 2017
  • The Smiths leave and a gaggle of teenagers — shirtless, backpacks, fresh off the beach — stroll past, singing along loudly.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
  • He was seen pulling a microphone away from the gaggle of reporters and moved to take off his mask.
    Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Family pets and a gaggle of hens may first seem at odds, but there’s hope.
    Caroline Collins McKenzie, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Outside Spicer's office, the gaggle of reporters had grown from a few to 22.
    Hallie Jackson, NBC News, 15 May 2017
  • The same day, Trump himself dodged the question twice in a gaggle with White House pool reporters.
    Emily Atkin, New Republic, 2 June 2017
  • One is positioned at the top of the tunnel and the other is with the gaggle further down the tunnel.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
  • And a gaggle of reporters now milled about the Weyerhaeuser front lawn.
    oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
  • A week later, around the same spot, a gaggle of folks stood with more microphones.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Images of a gaggle of cool teens pop up throughout her journey through the city.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The Facebook hearings were down the hall in the Russell Office Building, the press in full gaggle.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • This patch of desert is home to a gaggle of beer vendors who open for business on Wednesday.
    Tirion Morris, azcentral, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Binkley was one of a gaggle of admirers who wrote to RequiemForMatt@gmail.com, the address given in the obit.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the props needed a space this large to house them: a small gaggle of goose decoys, for example.
    New York Times, 15 June 2021
  • Prince Harry, the king’s estranged younger son, arrived alone with a gaggle of his cousins.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 May 2023
  • Gone are the gaggles of tourists and selfie-stick-wielding masses.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The throw landed in Richard Rodgers’ mitts right in front of a gaggle of defenders in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Most of the other actors are patients, with a gaggle of ghosts thrown in for good measure.
    Terry Teachout, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Get Zack’s gaggle and Simon and Jared’s gaggle to go to war.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 May 2024
  • But amid the usual joggers and dog walkers, an unusual gathering had formed: a gaggle of spectators, dressed to impress, paying homage to a heartthrob.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Nov. 2024
  • In the hallway just outside the courtroom — surrounded by a rotating posse of Republican allies, lawyers and Secret Service agents — Trump seethed about the case while campaigning to a gaggle of press cameras.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025

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