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Example sentences for: clan
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The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)
He also assigns dluth fraoch to the clan Robertson, translated as the `fine-leaved heath' (i.e.
--At a recent clan gathering, all family members with political aspirations ..."
USAT runs a fascinating front-page "cover story" on the Travelers, a little-known South Carolina-based but itinerant clan of English, Irish and Scottish descent thought to number up to 100,000.
The apparently straightforward transference of clan names can, however, lead to confusion.