How to Use clique in a Sentence

clique

noun

• At Brentwood High, the main clique is known as the Sailors.
  — Hannah Dreier, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Apr. 2018
• Being excluded by a clique can be overwhelming and painful.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 3 July 2024
• The video panels between the pair of star artists and the clique of kids gallivanting throughout the scene.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2018
• Most of it is mainly insults and denigrating any opponent to her clique.
  — Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• In their absence, the party got bigger and weirder, and ominous cliques started to gather in the corners.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
• Or make an effort to work with her directly on some project — which is a decent tactic for responding to office cliques in general.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• While Ms Suu Kyi runs the country, a clique of these ageing former political prisoners runs the party.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• The comics in the 515 can be a proud bunch, prone to the odd clique and gripe over stage time.
  — Lee Keeler, SPIN, 10 May 2022
• Those who are at home will feel left out of this clique.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• Once in Paris, they were sold to the lady’s clique of chic French dames.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 14 June 2019
• My high school had cliques: the black girls and white girls, the Filipino and the Latina girls.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 26 Jan. 2019
• Freddie Gibbs is no stranger to putting out dope work for the clique.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 19 Feb. 2021
• The way to manage a clique is to put yourself out of its reach.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
• My high school had cliques: the black girls and white girls, the Filipino and Latina girls.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2019
• And Charlotte would just lose herself in the clique of kids playing in the street.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• There were cliques there, and this place was huge, so people had their spots.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• Love the Frank Ocean song playing in the background as this mean clique takes on a new recruit.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 10 June 2021
• Steer clear of cliques and groups that drain your energy as well as your time.
  — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2020
• Now the user will send a message to one of the other users in our little clique.
  — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
• People are in little cliques that don't like this clique, but there's very few of those.
  — William Sanders, Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2021
• The commercial ends with a shout-out to the clique Heron infiltrates in Mean Girls.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 2 July 2022
• In the video, Rico hangs with a throng of women and a lone man who is more of a mascot than a member of the clique.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• What about the clichés that plague women, of cattiness or cliques?
  — Elizabeth Holmes, Marie Claire, 30 Apr. 2018
• These days, those around Snipes include his wife, his five children, and his clique.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Yayo and his team haven’t backed down from hating their nemesis along with the Murder Inc. clique.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 26 July 2024
• The once-large groups splintered off, shifting the gang landscape to smaller cliques and block-by-block turf wars.
  — Malika Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2018
• Even if the main clique in 13 Reasons Why is still stuck in the past, Liberty High keeps changing.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Jada, Jaden, Willow, Trey — y’all ain’t f—ing with my clique.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 24 May 2018
• Chafkin moves at a brisk pace through the stories of companies that Thiel built with members of this clique.
  — Moira Weigel, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
• In high school, he was drawn to a small clique of other nerds and came to accept the bullying as normal.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024