How to Use clique in a Sentence

clique

noun

• Kids who aren’t in a clique or who are at the bottom of the clique hierarchy might feel more lonely and sad.
  — Hannah L. Schacter, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024
• There weren't really sororities, but there was a clique of girls who were just total witches and did not want to include me in anything.
  — Alex Rees, Cosmopolitan, 30 Oct. 2015
• Around two dozen well-educated, middle-class 20-something Ethiopian men have formed an intimate clique both on and offline.
  — Katie Baker, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2013
• Secretive deputy cliques have operated in L.A. County for decades.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
• RuPaul is introducing audiences to their world clique in the latest, globe-trotting version of Drag Race.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 July 2024
• Staying away from the popular, successful crowd works until one of his own is brainwashed, perhaps literally, by the clique, propelling the sci-fi horror into gear.
  — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Groups move and grow, loose cliques that flex and change.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
• At Brentwood High, the main clique is known as the Sailors.
  — Hannah Dreier, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Apr. 2018
• 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
• There are a couple of names left out of that new power clique.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 6 Feb. 2017
• 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
• What happened when nerdy kids took over the school from the popular clique?
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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 other words, jargon is the office clique no one wants to join.
  — Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The video panels between the pair of star artists and the clique of kids gallivanting throughout the scene.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024