Example sentences for: clan

How can you use “clan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.


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