Sample Sentences forcoterie (auto-selected)
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Sleep fights cancer, Regular Dr. Jim said for the thousandth time as he hovered over me one morning surrounded by a coterie of medical students.† (source)
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Wherever Willoughby went, there followed axiomatically a coterie of passive, mostly negative characters known as the Courthouse Crowd, specimens Willoughby had put into the various county and municipal offices to do as they were told.† (source)
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Some years ago, around the turn of the last century, a splinter faction emerged among our people—a coterie of disaffected peculiars with dangerous ideas.† (source)
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As an educated man successful in his profession, as an eminent Republican and church leader-even though of the Methodist church-Mr. Clutter was entitled to rank among the local patricians, but just as he had never joined the Garden City Country Club, he had never sought to associate with the reigning coterie.† (source)
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He had a bevy of female admirers—but also a coterie of critics, who considered him a dandy and a playboy.† (source)
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He'll be there with his whole coterie.† (source)
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The congregational principle, on the other hand, makes each church into a kind of club, and finally, if all goes well, into a coterie or faction.† (source)
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In proportion as the circle of public society is extended, it may be anticipated that the sphere of private intercourse will be contracted; far from supposing that the members of modern society will ultimately live in common, I am afraid that they may end by forming nothing but small coteries.† (source)
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In this same thinning but still oddly coterielike group, the consensus is that, of all the Glass children, the eldest boy, Seymour, back in the late twenties and early thirties, had been the "best" to hear, the most consistently "rewarding."† (source)
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Every member of the respectable coterie appeared plunged in his own reflections; not excepting the dog, who by a certain malicious licking of his lips seemed to be meditating an attack upon the legs of the first gentleman or lady he might encounter in the streets when he went out.† (source)
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Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and rumour to be no less the staple topic of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.† (source)
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Puns are sometimes serious factors in politics; witness the Castratus ad castra, which made a general of the army of Narses; witness: Barbari et Barberini; witness: Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram, etc., etc. The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in heroes.† (source)
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This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of comment in all the little local coteries.† (source)
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Senators, said William Allen White, represented not only states and regions but "principalities and powers and business": One Senator, for instance, represented the Union Pacific Railway System, another the New York Central, still another the insurance interests......Coal and iron owned a coterie ....cotton had half adozen Senators.† (source)
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"She blushes at the insult," murmured Bathsheba, watching the pink flush which arose and overspread the neck and shoulders of the ewe where they were left bare by the clicking shears—a flush which was enviable, for its delicacy, by many queens of coteries, and would have been creditable, for its promptness, to any woman in the world.† (source)
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Nightwing bustles about as if we were expecting Her Majesty to come rather than a small coterie of parents and patrons.† (source)
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