Exclusionary group

Usage examples of clique.

The mixed crowd muttered, formed into small cliques, and pushed at the bar where Jake and Castile poured thimble-sized glasses of mead for tasting.

To right and left of it were isolated groups of palms growing in threes and fours, like trees that had formed themselves into cliques and set careful barriers of sand between themselves and their despised brethren.

Queen since the rise of the Polignac clique, Elis-abeth had remained touchingly loyal.

All our numerous squabbling cliques, political, religious, or whatever they may be, will have to drop their differences in the face of this greater peril and unitedly support us in future efforts to get rid of it once and for all.

Athanase Georgevitch and Thaddeus, and the two officers also, to say that he was the only honest man in all the Russian police, and that Matrena Petrovna was a great woman to have dared rid herself of the entire clique of agents, who are often more revolutionary than the Nihilists themselves.

It was a satire in which the Zorzi clique was pulled to pieces, and in which I played a very poor part. I did not read it till some time after, and in the mean time put it in my pocket.

Polycarbon Clique: a fungus and an alga, potential rivals, united in symbiosis to accomplish what neither could do alone, just as the Clique united Mechanist and Shaper to bring life to Mars.

There was a sizeable clique of the overdone, comic opera uniforms in among them, and now he discovered that they smoked top-grade cigars.

I wobbled, brushing away tears, but I managed to stand, and the Clique cheered.

What cut short the experiments of a clique of scientists, ending their lives in manner calculated to arouse no suspicion?

There was no doubt that she was popular: the room was obviously peppered with a clique of regular admirers who seemed to know all her songs by heart, and who burst into ecstatic laughter whenever she approached a particularly classic line.

Was EFF a genuinely important political development -- or merely a clique of wealthy eccentrics, dabbling in matters better left to the proper authorities?

He also viewed it as a means of self-preservation, thinking once he became a member of a team or fraternity, his inclusion in that elite clique would at the very least preclude him from being abused by outsiders.

Chan Corbulo was leader of the little clique of officials who planned to betray the Empire to the Cloud.

When one is part of a small and comparatively insignificant clique, warming one self in its closeness and camaraderie, what happens if one of the clique suddenly rises and becomes famous in the wild world outside?