Example sentences for: gear

How can you use “gear” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 2/12/99 Amid expectations that neither impeachment article will get majority support in the Senate, both sides gear up for the aftermath.

  • The backlash against William G. Bowen and Derek Bok's The Shape of the River , a liberal defense of affirmative action, has kicked into gear, and much of it won't surprise you.

  • For instance, the FDA wanted to bar tobacco companies from sponsoring sports events or placing Marlboro Man and Joe Camel logos on T-shirts, caps, and other gear.

  • Three plainclothes NYPD officers without radios or protective gear had begun ascending either stairwell A or C of the NorthTower.

  • A Wall Street Journal front feature reports on a little-noticed consequence of more and more couples, many of them twin-earners, waiting later and later in life to have children: elementary schools now have to gear up to teach students about parental death.


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