clannish

Example Sentences

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As each story revolves around the perils and power of racial or clannish identity, their sequels would naturally call for advances in inclusion of all kinds.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2022

And considering what we know about the clannish nature of Westerosi society, why would the rank and file rally behind a king whose family members are now technically foreigners?

From Slate • May 21, 2019

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

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