How do you use Ganged in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Ganged in a sentence
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Ganged meaning
simple past and past participle of gang
Using Ganged
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of gang
- In the example corpus, ganged often appears in combinations such as: ganged up, have ganged, were ganged.
Context around Ganged
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ganged
- In this selection, "ganged" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, press, heels, inmates and together stand out and add context to how "ganged" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include activists have ganged up to and and who ganged up to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ganged" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ganged
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
So, does he feel ganged-up on? (7 words)
The teenagers allegedly ganged up on the teenager and tried to rape her. (13 words)
But the man claims he is innocent and a couple of former carers have ganged up on him. (18 words)
In a lower court complaint from 2017, Zamora alleged that in June 2015, other inmates ganged up on her and Yolanda Saldivar, the former nurse convicted in the murder of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez, because of their notoriety. (39 words)
The Harvard and Princeton telescopes will be "ganged" to track the same targets at the same time, with the intent being to detect the same signal in both locations as a means of reducing errors from detector noise. (38 words)
Lists of prisoners at Marshalsea, Berwick and prison interviews conducted by Captain Eyre show some of these men to be English born, claiming to have been press-ganged or seized as prisoners on British ships. (35 words)
So, does he feel ganged-up on? (7 words)
Example sentences (17)
They ganged up on him but he dodged the barbs and came back with witty retorts and snappy comebacks.
The heels ganged up on Ripley and held her arms out while Morgan hit her with repeated baseball bat shots to the rings and then the back.
But the man claims he is innocent and a couple of former carers have ganged up on him.
It’s also—dare I say—quite likely that they badly lost such fights or were ganged up on in them, leading to their twisted recourse.
I was being assaulted and had to get away from the crowd of about 10 people, who were very angry with me and who ganged up to assault me.
In a lower court complaint from 2017, Zamora alleged that in June 2015, other inmates ganged up on her and Yolanda Saldivar, the former nurse convicted in the murder of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez, because of their notoriety.
Others joined in too and ganged up on the Moggster with Nicholas Soames telling him via Twitter to shut up and put a sock in it.
So, does he feel ganged-up on?
Some civil and women rights activists have ganged up to demand that the UN remove president Peter Mutharika as a He or She champion.
The teenagers allegedly ganged up on the teenager and tried to rape her.
The Zanu PF members who had ganged up to boot Mai Mujuru and her supporters split into two new warring factions; Lacoste and G40, supporting Mnangagwa and Grace Mugabe respectively.
Around 500 Irish Picquets in the French army fought in the battle, some of whom were thought to have been press-ganged from 6th (Guise's) Foot taken at Fort Augustus.
A Russian circular slide rule built like a pocket watch that works as single cursor slide rule since the two needles are ganged together.
His campaign, no longer taken lightly by his opponents, was outmatched organizationally and he was ganged up upon in a candidate's debate.
Lists of prisoners at Marshalsea, Berwick and prison interviews conducted by Captain Eyre show some of these men to be English born, claiming to have been press-ganged or seized as prisoners on British ships.
The Harvard and Princeton telescopes will be "ganged" to track the same targets at the same time, with the intent being to detect the same signal in both locations as a means of reducing errors from detector noise.
There were also unique row houses made of poured concrete which were ganged together and known as "Mill Houses", as they were built to house steel mill workers.
Common combinations with ganged
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ganged up 13×
- have ganged 2×
- were ganged 2×
- ganged together 2×