clannish

Example Sentences

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The model relies on a dramatic shift in relations among officers and prisoners, two historically warring factions in a system built on clannish gamesmanship for survival.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

The characters in this movie — as in a lot of Farr’s other scripts — are clannish, and fiercely protective of their own territory.

From The Verge • Mar. 29, 2019

Mary, already a widow and still in her teens, alights from France as an avatar of worldliness and modernity in a rugged, clannish country.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Indeed, the story of how soccer escaped its gritty, clannish, working-class roots and became an enormous global industry is a central cultural and economic parable of our time.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2018

In general, the Virginians were the chief beneficiaries of all the highly stylized histories, though, as Adams observed, “not a lad upon the Highlands is more clannish than every Virginian I have ever known.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis