coterie

How To Use coterie In A Sentence

• The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
• Why disregard the advice of your highly paid coterie to make your life harder? Times, Sunday Times
• They are trapped with the coteries of a dying movement.
• He formed a coterie of opera and ballet lovers who were enthusiastic and loyal. Times, Sunday Times
• As one black ball in six is sufficient to exclude a candidate -- or, to use the official euphemism, to cause his "postponement" -- it is not difficult for the coterie that controls the club to keep it clear of all noisy, or even of merely too conspicuous, individuality. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
• Only the coterie of failed academics and other talentless miscreants who populate the "curatorial" and institutional world of contemporary art believe that there's ever been a "line between art and commerce" in the post-Medieval world. Challenging the line between art and commerce is cute until it's not cute.
• a wit-combat by another woman is a festering wound to a clever woman, to be permanently deposed from the leadership of a coterie is a consuming canker. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
• The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
• Helen remembered that kind-hearted Cecilia had often remonstrated for humanity's sake, and stopped the quizzing which used to go on in their private coteries, when the satirical elder sister would have it that _le petit bossu_ was in love with Louisa. Tales and Novels — Volume 10
• He had been all but ignored during his career and was resurrected only a decade after it by tiny yet earnest coteries scattered around Europe and America.