Example sentences for: fraternal

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

  • Also, suburbanization shattered the old urban institutions, the pubs and fraternal societies, that once provided the ballast for Irish communities.

  • Tammany Tiger has died and come back as the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the American Irish Teachers Association, the Irish American Foundation, and the Irish-American Caucus--interest groups and old fraternal orders playing new breed-identity politics.

  • The weirdest of these being the NYT picture, which takes the warm fraternal fuzzies now felt by Clinton and Bush to a new level of intimacy by depicting them as power-suited Siamese twins.

  • It is evident in Irish-Americans' increased visits to Ireland (the Irish American Foundation calls them "pilgrimages"); the burgeoning membership of fraternal organizations like the Ancient Order of Hibernians (now at 100,000); and rising contributions to groups like the American Friends of Sinn Fein (in 1995, it raised a record $1.

  • British troops blocked the Orangemen, a Protestant fraternal order, from marching through a Catholic neighborhood.


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