Sentence examples for like clan from inspiring English sources

"But as long as my wavelength was peaceful, I was invariably treated like clan.

With each rotation, the men jumped over them like clan pipers liquored up after the Battle of Bannockburn.

In Pakistan, your primary loyalty is to your biraderi, an untranslatable word, something like clan, but more visceral and entailing greater responsibility and connection.

Much like clan tartans, crest badges owe their popularity to Victorian romanticism.

Armigers, like clan chiefs and chieftains, may wear their own personal crest within a plain circlet inscribed with their own motto or slogan.

The MacAulays of Ardincaple, like Clan Gregor and several other clans, have traditionally been considered one of the seven clans which make up Siol Alpin.

Both are part of a Sloane-ranger-like clan of wealthy young Parisians, who live in the so-called "triangle" of Neuilly and the 8th and 16th arrondissments of Paris.

But when this Kennedy-like clan, which is under discreet investigation for child abuse, makes fast friends with Jack (a hotshot reporter, mind you) and his girlfriend (the investigating social worker, no less), the mind reels -- and the book tanks.

So we meet a paunchy mayoral candidate and real estate agent who calls himself Lone Wolf and goes in for buckskin and tepees (usually a German fetish); a Roma-like clan that puts on a low-rent circus; and the Drappier winemaking family, living in baronial splendor.

The historical trick in "Atomic Candy" is the Albion Family, a Kennedy-like clan which rules Boston from the 1950s to the '70s.

This group did not participate in the macro-economic success of the country and began to reject the mafia-like clan that divided the country amongst themselves.