Example sentences for: clans

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

  • At the same time, marauding Scottish clans began to attack the Lakes.

  • When people speak of such pan-ethnic continental clans, they are merely regurgitating American definitions of race.

  • In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.

  • The state of Yamato, as early Japan was known, was organized into uji, or clusters of clans, together with subordinate guilds of farmers, fishermen, hunters, weavers, and potters, all subject to the dominant uji of the imperial family.

  • The Rajput warrior clans fought each other for control in what is now Rajasthan, the Kathiawar peninsula, and as far east as Khajuraho.


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