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

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

They were clannish, responding to the harshness and turmoil of their environment by forming tight family bonds and placing loyalty to blood above all else.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell