How to Use clique in a Sentence

clique

noun
  • Don’t bring your lawyer, bring your gat or bring your clique, man.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Her class contained a very mean clique of girls.
    — Emeline Atwood, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
  • There were cliques there, and this place was huge, so people had their spots.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
  • There are a couple of names left out of that new power clique.
    — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The way to manage a clique is to put yourself out of its reach.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Freddie Gibbs is no stranger to putting out dope work for the clique.
    — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Steer clear of cliques and groups that drain your energy as well as your time.
    — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2020
  • People are in little cliques that don't like this clique, but there's very few of those.
    — William Sanders, Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2021
  • In other words, jargon is the office clique no one wants to join.
    — Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • What happened when nerdy kids took over the school from the popular clique?
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Aug. 2017
  • What about the clichés that plague women, of cattiness or cliques?
    — Elizabeth Holmes, Marie Claire, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Once in Paris, they were sold to the lady’s clique of chic French dames.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 14 June 2019
  • The comics in the 515 can be a proud bunch, prone to the odd clique and gripe over stage time.
    — Lee Keeler, SPIN, 10 May 2022
  • These days, those around Snipes include his wife, his five children, and his clique.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Now the user will send a message to one of the other users in our little clique.
    — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • This means that the earlier assumption that there was a large clique must have been false.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And Charlotte would just lose herself in the clique of kids playing in the street.
    — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Brown’s class offers them a unique chance to get outside of their cliques and coexist.
    — Bowen West, idahostatesman, 9 May 2018
  • Don’t let your clique call the shots without adding your voice to the conversation.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • So, a graph is perfect if its chromatic number equals to the largest size of a clique in it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • The hand-me-downs helped Lisa garner attention from a trendy clique at school.
    — Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Your family and that clique of cousins that can pass for white might not be ready for this new woke version of you.
    — Roberto Carlos Garcia, The Root, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Corbett also thinks that deputy cliques existed at one point.
    — Teagan Davidge, Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.
    — Emma Dibdin, Country Living, 23 Nov. 2018
  • Which of these North Shore cliques does Janis Ian not point out?
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The once-large groups splintered off, shifting the gang landscape to smaller cliques and block-by-block turf wars.
    — Malika Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2018
  • This graph had no cliques — clusters of nodes that are all connected to one another.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
  • For those who come into the office, Levine encourages them to break up their cliques.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • In high school, he was drawn to a small clique of other nerds and came to accept the bullying as normal.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • When the blue cliques are just as small as the red ones, the benefits of the new approach disappear.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026

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