How to Use clique in a Sentence

clique

noun

• Once in Paris, they were sold to the lady’s clique of chic French dames.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 14 June 2019
• Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.
  — Emma Dibdin, Country Living, 23 Nov. 2018
• 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
• That formative, cringe-inducing time was filled with angst, cliques, and a whole lot of acne.
  — Bonnie Stiernberg, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2019
• Street gangs are bound by allegiance to their clique, a neighborhood group that operates largely on its own.
  — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
• Black and white musicians—male and female, old and young—stood shoulder to shoulder without pretense or any suggestion of cliques.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
• Alas, our current environmental crises reach well beyond the problems that Grinnell and his clique aimed to solve.
  — Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• The royal village church, with its plaques and monuments, is like the private chapel of ailing megalomaniacs: the shrine of a clique.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• Her research has shown that daughters learn it from watching their mothers, and spongers form cliques with other spongers—making it a cultural tradition.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
• That is how desperate Trump’s clique is to come up with new ways to use executive power to lash out at non-citizens and asylum seekers.
  — Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
• There are mean cliques and pregnancy scares and all the other problems that are all too often lacking in magical schools, giving it a familiar framework to relate to.
  — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 15 June 2019
• Dolphin was aware that members of Kavanaugh’s clique were reciting that poem, according to a person familiar with her thinking.
  — Kate Kelly, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
• And then, in an unexpected twist, blends the different cliques together to create eccentric, off-kilter designs.
  — Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 30 May 2019
• 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
• 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
• These days, those around Snipes include his wife, his five children, and his clique.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• 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
• She was described as desperately seeking approval from a clique of girls with social influence among her peers.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
• More than just seeking to destroy the damaging cliques at his new school, Slater’s character has plans for something a little more permanent in this comedy that really shaped the teen genre for years to come.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024