Example sentences for: cliques

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

  • Besides the White Housers, the two other leading cliques are the Jocks and the Poms, who have a friendly rivalry about which group is more important.

  • Not everyone in America goes to a big public high school, but everyone goes to a high school governed by a hierarchy of popularity and cliques.

  • The program thought it could do this by a) making us watch Pepsi-sponsored movies featuring anti-drug propaganda and shrewd product placement; b) reinforcing the most obnoxious cliques on campus by choosing all the "All Star" officers from a popular group of athletes and cheerleaders (on average, B and C students who drank, smoked, and skipped class); c) doing everything possible to conceal the fact that high school's purpose is education; and d) giving us the opportunity to buy as much "All Star" merchandise as our parents could afford.

  • According to Newsweek 's account of the U.S. team's preparation, "Roommates were switched at every stop on the World Cup road to prevent cliques from forming.

  • Different groups, ranging from urbane students to cliques involved in drug smuggling and prostitution, pepper their language with English or English-based expressions.


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