Example sentences for: klan

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

  • A third plan was to note that the city of New York refused to grant a permit for an anti-Klan rally because, since it had just banned a Klan rally, there was no need for anyone to express an opinion on the Klan.

  • "Liven up a crowd, or a Klan rally in the senator's case, with the smooth, lilting sound of a banjo."

  • French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.

  • Because Jones failed to file her suit before Title VII's 180-day statute of limitations, her lawyers have used an obscure Reconstruction-era anti-Ku Klux Klan law to make her case.

  • In the late 1980s, purported connections with the Ku Klux Klan so damaged the reputation of athletic-wear manufacturer Troop (whose name was rumored to be a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "To Rule Over Oppressed People") that it was forced into bankruptcy.


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