How to Use coterie in a Sentence

coterie

noun
  • His films are admired by a small coterie of critics.
  • Michaels has developed a coterie of key aides over the years.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Biden has taken a large coterie of aides with him on his first foreign trip.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 14 June 2021
  • However, the best part is the matching coterie of gold chains both around her neck and her hips.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Straight-faced and stiff-lipped, Knox dodged flashbulbs as a coterie of bodyguards kept the press at bay.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2019
  • Those things are determined behind the scenes by Putin and a small coterie of elites.
    — Brian D. Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Now more than ever, the political coterie and the shock troops are aligned.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2024
  • And just like that, here comes another coterie of young people to make some of us feel old and some of us feel seen.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • But joining the coterie of cool girls isn’t so straightforward in practice.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartzy, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Texas is a vicious place ran by a coterie of increasingly moist and precious men.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The speaker list reflects the growing coterie of the crypto world and tech writ large that has taken a hard-right turn.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 26 July 2024
  • The coterie is identified in court records as the Hapsburg Group.
    — Matt Apuzzo, New York Times, 4 June 2018
  • Elez, after all, is not the only member of Musk’s coterie who dabbles in far-right trolling.
    — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Much of the company’s success comes down to its coterie of craftspeople.
    — Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The war in Afghanistan, launched by a coterie around Brezhnev, turned into a quagmire.
    — David E. Hoffman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Lawmakers and their coteries of staff have gone home or to the beach for the August recess.
    — Nash Jenkins / Washington, Time, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Do not get lost in the weeds, the exact terms of the repayment recovery can be fine-tuned by a coterie of green-eye shade lawyers.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
  • In their separate sessions, the pairs had a chance not just to meet the cows, but the entire coterie of characters.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2019
  • Members of Yi Lei’s coterie were struck by the boldness and freedom of her poem.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
  • And the party still counts a coterie of lawmakers already in Congress -- for now.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Those outside his coterie of marks can simply take heart in the fact that the Forward Party is fake.
    — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2021
  • And so, aviation mayhem ensues, as Lucas fights off a coterie of bad guys through a haze of drugs and liquor.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 9 May 2025
  • The risk is, in the short term, that yet another of soccer’s crown jewels becomes the plaything of a small coterie of clubs.
    — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • There, Cohn will send over one of his boy-toys to invite Donald to dinner with his coterie of gangster clients.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the fame, wealth and celebrity status, the Holywood star is still very grounded with a close coterie of school friends.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • He's hounded on the streets by cell phone-waving fans asking for a picture, and has to resort to a coterie of disguises.
    — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Theresa May, the home secretary and a front-runner in the race to be party leader, is not part of that coterie.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 7 July 2016
  • The film shows an entire coterie of people eager to help in Mahmoody’s abuse in the name of Islam.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • But in the coterie world of theater connoisseurs, Mays has earned a place among acting immortals.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • There, Cohn will send over one of his boy toys to invite Donald to dine with him at his table with his coterie of gangster clients.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024

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