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.
  • 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
  • One of the people said Mr. Li has already told his inner coterie...
    Wayne Ma, WSJ, 20 June 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
  • In their separate sessions, the pairs had a chance not just to meet the cows, but the entire coterie of characters.
    New York Times, 12 July 2019
  • Do not get lost in the weeds, the exact terms of the repayment recovery can be fine-tuned by a coterie of green-eye shade lawyers.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Despite the fame, wealth and celebrity status, the Holywood star is still very grounded with a close coterie of school friends.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • Theresa May, the home secretary and a front-runner in the race to be party leader, is not part of that coterie.
    Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 7 July 2016
  • One selfie also shows the two with beaming smiles and basking in the fun of the party, which brought a coterie of Tiffany & Co. muses to The Landmark.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • But joining the coterie of cool girls isn’t so straightforward in practice.
    Sarah Todd, Quartzy, 12 Oct. 2019
  • And, yet, that is precisely what a coterie of U.S. senators intends to do with a ...
    Jordan McGillis, National Review, 11 May 2022
  • But despite the fame, wealth and celebrity status, McIlroy is still very grounded with a close coterie of school friends.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • They’re also meant to share America with the world and create a coterie of Americans in sync with the needs of faraway places.
    Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The findings were never released to the public as Trump and a coterie of allies continued to say there was fraud.
    Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • Appointed in 1982, Chéreau spent a decade at Amandiers, shaping a coterie of actors.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2022
  • 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

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