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

Vance attributes his grandparents' clannish and protective behavior to those roots.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2020

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

James grew up in a public-housing project in South Boston, known as Southie, a clannish community of 30,000, mostly Irish-American, across a narrow waterway from downtown Boston.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2018

All Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien