How to Use clique in a Sentence

clique

noun
Definition of cliquenext
Synonyms for cliquenext
  • Such fully connected subsets of dice are called a clique.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Last season, the quarterback room was a clique, separate from the other entities.
    — cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • No longer were my fashion dreams relegated to the catalogue circulated by my clique like contraband.
    — Lacy Warner, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2020
  • There’s a tempting story to be told about all this: that a small clique of diabolical fossil fuel interests long ago plotted to deny the reality of global warming.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Brayan’s killing is but one in a series of killings attributed by federal authorities to MS-13’s Fulton clique.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Unfortunately, finding a clique of 128 dice is a particularly thorny problem.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These days, those around Snipes include his wife, his five children, and his clique.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • She was horrified at the mean things written in the Burn Book and loved how all the cliques blended together in the end.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 11 Jan. 2024
  • And Peterman, new to a school that already had a quarterback, wasn’t a part of their clique.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • She’s that person in your clique that makes all of the decisions and any time there’s a person who goes against her, there’s hell to pay.
    — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 8 Aug. 2022
  • When Lindsay Lohan’s Cady moves to town, a clique called the Plastics pulls her into their web.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
  • The tag represented a clique, or subset, of 18th Street, Aguirre said.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Moving past the fact that the Mean Girls is probably the most hack possible name to give your clique, this group is a mixed bag.
    — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
  • That’s a line straight out of Mean Girls, the circa 2004 movie about surviving a suburban high school and its cliques.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And why did Thaksin’s party do a deal with the same military clique that ousted him and his sister Yingluck in coups?
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The budget calls for the addition of three captains to be placed in stations with a history of deputy gangs and cliques.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • The first two episodes laid out the in-decline Capote’s betrayal of his high-society clique’s secrets and its immediate aftershocks.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024

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