How to Use clannish in a Sentence

clannish

adjective

• The college faculty can be pretty clannish, so it's difficult to be an outsider there.
• They were drawn as lazy, clannish, unclean, drunken brawlers who wallowed in crime and bred like rats.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 Mar. 2018
• The West Side – solid and loyal, traditional and clannish – takes care of its own.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Aug. 2017
• For much of the world, Mr. Varadkar is a symbol of Ireland’s leap from its clannish, Catholic past to a tolerant, multiracial modernity.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• At the same time, millennia of dynastic rule have taught the Chinese a thing or two about the tribal tendencies of the ruling class, as well as about clannish behavior at all levels of society.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
• That in-on-the-joke mentality, as well as the clannish nature of streetwear cool, has created a decades-long frenzy surrounding Supreme’s weekly releases.
  — Lauren Schwartzberg, WIRED, 25 May 2017
• The chairman’s power endures amid a culture of sycophancy and clannish distrust of anyone outside his inner circle of party bosses.
  — Frank Scaturro, National Review, 13 July 2017
• At the same time, its historical imagination is clannish.
  — Nikil Saval, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
• Think Jeronimo Yanez, Philando Castile’s killer, and see how young officers fare in these toxic, clannish environments.
  — Cynthia Gomez Engoulou, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
• The Oulipo, a diverse if clannish guild that has somehow managed to survive for fifty-eight years, has included both major writers and pedantic hobbyists, and inspired work along the entire range of its members’ capabilities.
  — Luc Sante, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• At first, Edge’s noisy entourage and naive enthusiasm irritated the park’s rather shy and clannish community of bird enthusiasts.
  — Melissa Groo, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• At a time when music has become a clannish activity, the age range, from teens to octogenarian and possibly beyond, was exceptional.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
• The mine companies did, however, pour funding into excellent schools, hospitals, and other infrastructure, and Ely’s mix of clannish immigrants implanted a lasting culture of saunas and stable family life.
  — Jack Brook, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2020
• This clannish pocket of Roseland was packed with first- and second- generation homeowners willing to lend a hand with parenting responsibilities, especially to struggling neighbors.
  — Madeline Buckley, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Assortative mating inputs wealth, social connections, and clannish expertise to gain its children entry to private schools, organized extracurriculars, and all sorts of socio-economic advantages.
  — Rich Benjamin, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• Without aspirations for the future, they are held together by clannish loyalty and racist resentment — an empty sense of white entitlement and a perpetually expanding catalog of grievances.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024