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Example sentences for: clans

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

The Rajput warrior clans fought each other for control in what is now Rajasthan, the Kathiawar peninsula, and as far east as Khajuraho.
By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
(The republic, as you probably know, contains three competing clans.)
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 Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.