How to use "gate" in a sentence

'Now, you two must go and keep guard in the street, one by the gate, one at the street corner.'

He spent the next two nights walking around the garden, checking the gate, listening for noises, but nothing unusual happened.

Marius ran to the gate and was just in time to see the figure of Eponine, Thenardier's daughter, disappearing into the shadows at the end of the street.

The opening was closed with a strong iron gate, held firm by a huge, rusty lock

Then, moving to the gate, he shook it fiercely with both hands, trying to bend the bars with the last of his strength

But the gate was solid and the bars were firm.

Valjean turned his back to the gate and sank to the ground, his head bowed between his knees

Give me half of what you found in this man's pockets, and I'll unlock the gate for you.' He produced a large key from his pocket, and a piece of rope

He took the thirty francs and, helping Valjean to lift Marius on to his shoulders, he put the key in the lock and opened the gate just wide enough for Valjean to pass through

When Valjean was outside, Thenardier closed the gate behind him and disappeared, like a rat, into the darkness of the sewers.

Apparently, the pooch slipped out of the gate when the gardeners came around

Twenty yards beyond the bend, the way was barred by a steel gate

On each side of the gate, a nine-foot-high fence, angled outward at the top and strung with wickedly sharp coils of razor wire, stretched out of sight into the forest

The top of the gate was also wrapped with razor wire.

"Not long," she said as the gate swung inward.

"What if someone else opened the gate?" Elliot asked

He sighed and drove through the gate, which swung shut behind the Explorer.

The second gate was one and a half miles past the first, on a short length of straightaway, just over the brow of a hill

It was not merely a gate, but a checkpoint

A guard shack stood to the right of the road, from which the gate was controlled.

From elsewhere in the night, Danny opened the gate.

The guard stopped halfway to the Explorer and turned toward the gate when he saw it moving, unable to believe his eyes.

"He jinxed the guard's phone, opened the gate, and jammed the submachine gun

Even if they locate the main gate, they can't get any farther than that

Before he got to the guard shack at the upper gate, he climbed onto the ridge above, used the snowshoes to circle the guard, returned to the road, and threw the snowshoes away

Bollinger was probably at the bottom gate two and a half hours after he walked out of the door here, three hours after he was infected

The commissaire drove through the open factory gate, stopped by the main entrance, and we got out of the car

There is a path from Old Hall, where she lives, to our garden gate, so most people coming from there come to the study window instead of going along the road to the front door.

When we reached her gate, she said, 'Please, come in and tell me what you think of my new home.'

I returned to the vicarage by the garden gate

As I reached the vicarage gate, it opened and Lawrence Redding came out

'Remember, I met him just outside the gate

'Well, I shall never forget his face when I met him outside my gate, or the way he said, "Oh, you'll see Protheroe all right!" That should have made me suspect what had just happened.' Haydock stared at me

She went in by the back gate.'

Then Mr Redding came to the vicarage gate, looked all round...'

Just outside the gate, I met the vicar

'How did the murderer come to the study? First way, along the road and through the gate

Just opposite the vicarage gate is a public footpath

'My servant, Clara, was standing at the front gate, when she heard a sneeze.'

'And Clara couldn't hear Mary sneeze in your kitchen if she was standing at my gate.'

'You couldn't hear anyone sneezing in my study from your gate,' I said.

Two men and a woman were talking at the gate of one of the houses

'People seem fairly silly about the common,' the woman said over the gate

He turned, stared, shouted something about 'crawling out in a thing like a dish cover', and moved on to the gate of the next house

We stood for a moment in terror, then ran through a gate behind us into a garden and hid in a corner until the stars were out.

I remembered how I went to the garden gate as he came past, and how I had listened to his odd story of 'Men from Mars'.

And they start singing again along the path as she opens the front gate and walks to the door.

James heard the baby's loud cries the moment he opened the front gate