How to Use coterie in a Sentence

coterie

noun

• His films are admired by a small coterie of critics.
• She felt most comfortable with a small coterie of fellow musicians.
• One of the people said Mr. Li has already told his inner coterie...
  — Wayne Ma, WSJ, 20 June 2017
• In the nineties, a coterie of business figures built corporate empires that had little loyalty to the state.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• A coterie of local artists known as the Hue Dats presented selections of artwork for purchase.
  — Jan Lugenbuhl, NOLA.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• Lam was chosen by a coterie of pro-Beijing elites over a far more popular rival in what pro-democracy activists slammed as a fake election.
  — Kelvin Chan, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2017
• Ms. Lam was chosen by a coterie of pro-Beijing elites over a far more popular rival in what pro-democracy activists slammed as a fake election.
  — Kelvin Chan, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2017
• And the panels often look nothing like the typical cable-news coterie, which has long been stocked to bursting with white men noodling over policy in Washington.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024
• God has deserted heaven, leaving a coterie of reactionary, bureaucratic angels in charge.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
• Rusher was one of a small coterie of Republican activists who pushed Goldwater into running and shaped the early campaign.
  — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 20 July 2017
• The sense is that Kelly is essentially powerless to block Trump off from a coterie of friends and allies that predate the White House by years.
  — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Sep. 2017
• Matt, along with a distinguished coterie of scholars associated with this project, is making the bet that the true radiance of the work will be enhanced rather than diminished by this translation.
  — Arthur Green, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2017
• Dressed in armor and armed with a crossbow and pigtails, the singer led a coterie of male dancers set to the backdrop of a giant castle, full moon and tall gates that ignited with real fire at the beginning of the performance.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
• The two jointly approached McConnell about formalizing a coterie of members to serve as a sounding board/negotiating hub.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 24 May 2017
• Since the UFC has its own coterie of famous fans, and boxing hits an entirely different demographic, the event is pulling from two different worlds.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Such was the case for a coterie of wine-swirling physicists.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2018
• Straight-faced and stiff-lipped, Knox dodged flashbulbs as a coterie of bodyguards kept the press at bay.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2019
• However, the best part is the matching coterie of gold chains both around her neck and her hips.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
• The coterie is identified in court records as the Hapsburg Group.
  — Matt Apuzzo, New York Times, 4 June 2018
• Those things are determined behind the scenes by Putin and a small coterie of elites.
  — Brian D. Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2022
• Biden has taken a large coterie of aides with him on his first foreign trip.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 14 June 2021
• The war in Afghanistan, launched by a coterie around Brezhnev, turned into a quagmire.
  — David E. Hoffman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• Those outside his coterie of marks can simply take heart in the fact that the Forward Party is fake.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2021
• The speaker list reflects the growing coterie of the crypto world and tech writ large that has taken a hard-right turn.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 26 July 2024
• The film shows an entire coterie of people eager to help in Mahmoody’s abuse in the name of Islam.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• And in the 19th century, European settlers and their coterie of stoats, weasels, cats, and dogs dealt the coup de grace.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
• Lawmakers and their coteries of staff have gone home or to the beach for the August recess.
  — Nash Jenkins / Washington, Time, 4 Sep. 2017
• Now more than ever, the political coterie and the shock troops are aligned.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2024
• Members of Yi Lei’s coterie were struck by the boldness and freedom of her poem.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
• The risk is, in the short term, that yet another of soccer’s crown jewels becomes the plaything of a small coterie of clubs.
  — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024