How To Use Coterie In A Sentence
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You can join the painting coterie down there.
The Glasgow Girls
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This coterie, some ministers complain, has made an otherwise accessible chief minister elusive.
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They said that despite the boycott of the party from the last general elections, the district ameer and his coterie worked for an independent candidate in utter violation of the party discipline.
29th Death Anniversary Observed of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Prime Minister of Pakistan
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Dynasties cannot survive without coteries, and without a belief in their own right to rule.
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The show depends on a coterie of regular guests.
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He had a small coterie of friends who ringfenced entry to his world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Flanked by a coterie of burly henchmen, the Russian oligarch promptly takes to one of the pitches intent on some shooting practice.
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Once again they are superb at building a picture of the times, especially the foment of ideas and information that found fertile ground in the coteries and cliques of Restoration coffee-shop culture.
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He is surrounded by a coterie of advisers, some of whom are merely incompetent, others downright sinister.
Times, Sunday Times
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On one side its a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and Im neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side (he stammered) its a means for the coterie of the district to make money.
Chapter V. Part I
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In 1875, Dan was one of a coterie of five thieves rustling cattle and horses in southeastern Wyoming.
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Each coterie defends a home territory of about one acre from surrounding coteries.
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The only connection art now has with creativity is through the imaginative hype which is used to sell it to a wealthy coterie of effete fops.
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A coterie of well-heeled community leaders stepped out in high style Wednesday night for the announcement of the Houston Chronicle Best Dressed honorees in the couture salon at Neiman Marcus.
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The less official picture of Marko is of a gangster with a coterie of gunrunners, tobacco smugglers and drug dealers.
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How, you wonder, could she have ended up surrounding herself with a coterie of astrologers, spiritualists and lifestyle consultants?
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The term das junge Deutschland has stuck though it was imposed by an arbitrary resolution of the German Diet in 1835 on a literary coterie of five authors.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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A coterie of students stood close by the stairs to the beach, kicking sand at each other and taking turns leaping into the ocean.
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She chances upon a coterie of anti-establishment merry pranksters who live in the Haight-Ashbury and decides to spend the night with them.
James Scarborough: Summer of Love, Musical Theatre West
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Peter Winn lay back comfortably in a library chair, with closed eyes, deep in the cogitation of a scheme of campaign destined in the near future to make a certain coterie of hostile financiers sit up.
Winged Blackmail
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A larger book, The Story of the Mark Collection, details the accomplishments of "design legend" Jacques Grange, and his "coterie of magically gifted artists and artisans," ach lankily depicted in an accessory symbolizing European sophistication, like an ascott.
Is The Mark Trying Too Hard?
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These are questions that are no longer restricted to a small coterie of people who are ‘interested in politics’.
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They sum it up as a craze about the middle-aged crisis of meaning for a coterie of Yale Law School graduates and their confused friends.
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I now concurred with Chade that the Prince must have a coterie, one with at least a basic working knowledge of their magic.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Bingo Binks himself, who had given himself this trouble to secure the settlement of the bet; conjecturing that a man with a fashionable exterior, who could throw twelve yards of line at a cast with such precision, might consider the invitation of Winterblossom as that of an old twaddler, and care as little for the good graces of an affected blue-stocking and her côterie, whose conversation, in Sir
Saint Ronan's Well
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Why disregard the advice of your highly paid coterie to make your life harder?
Times, Sunday Times
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Obviously, the difference was pocketed by the ruling coterie.
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The creations of a small coterie of malicious hackers who invent toxic software for the sheer deviltry of it.
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The coterie of would-be revolutionaries commanded no widespread support.
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Polo has long been a favourite among the royals and their coterie, but it is increasingly accessible to mere mortals, too.
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He has numerous houses in several countries and embraces a coterie of celebrity friends.
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Then the never-to-be-forgotten coterie of the brightest women of the day under the shaded droplight, in the long winter evenings!
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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His loyal coterie of fans crowded the stage.
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He was supposed to create and train a Skill-coterie, a uni.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Since the mid-1990s, the nascent democratic transformation in Russia has given way to what may best be described as a "czarist" political system, in which all important decisions are taken by one man and his powerful coterie.
The New Republic - All Feed
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The man's genius was a known fact; known, that is, by England's critics, cognoscenti, and a small coterie of that country's balletomanes.
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I have a small coterie of favourite places, which is quite enough for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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They use various derivatives of opium, like morphine and heroin, also codeine, dionin, narcein, ethyl chloride and bromide, nitrite of amyl, amylin, -- and the skill that they have acquired in the manipulation of these powerful drugs stamps them as the most dangerous coterie of criminals in existence.
Guy Garrick
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At a personal level the federal results in Western Australia had the seductive and disarming effect of persuading the State Director and his coterie that in some manner they were responsible for the success.
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Twats like him would only be happy if it was abolished - Patton may be a Tory but he is infinitely preferable to swivel-eyed nutjobs such as Redwood and his coterie of retarded swamp-dwellers.
Hunt sends BBC Trust choice to No 10 as Tory right lobby against Patten
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[Del Spier] brokered a deal with Afghanistan's fledgling Ministry of Interior, which agreed to loan USPI hundreds of its troops -- a coterie of ragtag militiamen under the command of a notorious warlord named General Din Mohammad Jurat.
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein: Afghanistan Contractor: "We Were Warlords Over There"
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More helpful, perhaps, is the rescue of artists outside the coteries and fraternities.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Who can forget the quaint accounts of small coteries of European avant-garde artists who, in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, appropriated formal elements of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and African masks in their painting and sculpture.
G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture
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He formed a coterie of opera and ballet lovers who were enthusiastic and loyal.
Times, Sunday Times
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We haven't yet reached the point where the coterie begins to jump ship, but they have enough to worry about already.
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The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
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As it is, he has virtually become a prisoner of the coterie around him!
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The leader and his entire coterie are a study in relaxation and resilience going into what should be a trying week at the seaside.
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I was lifted directly into Madame de Vs Coterieand she put off the epocha of deism for two years.
63. Paris
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No doubt the winner will be most gratified and a coterie of industry insiders will take great interest in the results.
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Consequently there are situations where even legitimate facts are negated by the scientific coterie.
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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.
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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
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The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
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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
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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.
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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
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He formed a coterie of opera and ballet lovers who were enthusiastic and loyal.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are trapped with the coteries of a dying movement.
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Why disregard the advice of your highly paid coterie to make your life harder?
Times, Sunday Times
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So when evangelism is mentioned the good news that is the subject of the evangelism is nothing more than nice liturgy, nice preaching and nice stories – and who, other than the usual coterie of effete clergy, really cares about that.
Vision 2019: the Anglican Church of Canada is in serious decline « Anglican Samizdat
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The hermit's warning about marriage didn't seem to trouble him: he enjoyed a coterie of wives and survived unscathed.
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Many scholars have made a Utopia from an egalitarian society in which coteries of artists wined and dined their rich and enlightened patrons.
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Polo has long been a favourite among the royals and their coterie, but it is increasingly accessible to mere mortals, too.
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As Lady St. Edmunds was no restraint upon me, her presence in our coterie was rather advantageous to Lord Frederick, banishing the reserve of a tete-a-tete, and allowing him constantly to offer gallantries too indirect to provoke repulse, yet too pointed to be overlooked.
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Why disregard the advice of your highly paid coterie to make your life harder?
Times, Sunday Times
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There is apparently no one in his coterie who will point out to him that his nervous schlemiel is by now tired and threadbare and that he is no longer writing many funny lines.
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He'd landed the job by meeting a Canadian coterie at the Cannes festival, where he bummed around as a wannabe filmmaker, sleeping on the beach and sneaking into movies with a fake pass.
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I put on an afternoon tea for my coterie of new international students, inviting former students to come along and share their wisdom.
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He was supposed to create and train a Skill-coterie, a uni.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
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Around the room sat a large coterie of advisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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And while an elevated status would benefit practitioners, a coterie of design specialists may not be the best condition for culture or society.
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Nor was it particularly funny when he turned up for their first date accompanied by a coterie of managers, friends and hangers-on.
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Consider, too, how a holiday of action would disenthral the writer from the pettiness of cliques and coteries, with their pedantic atmosphere and false perspectives.
Without Prejudice
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Already his work has weathered rejection by publishers, objection by printers, suppression by censors, confiscation by custom officials, bowdlerization by pirates, oversight by proofreaders, attack by critics, and defense by coteries -- not to mention misunderstanding by readers.
James Joyce
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What appears to be a commercial-ended product scowls at its own small coterie of advisors and grins fatuously at all the end-users.
Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
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He treats the establishment as a disreputable mafia rather than an exclusive coterie.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence the monstering of Carson's reputation, an act of deliberate misinformation, say Oreskes and Conway, that has become the hallmark of a group of far-right institutions that are funded by businesses and conservative foundations and supported by a coterie of rightwing scientists who believe ecological threats are made up by lefty researchers as part of a grand plan to expand government control over our lives.
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway
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Faris has made over a nerdy sorority about to be delisted from the Greek roster into a coterie of mainstream-attractive mean girls.
Ultrabrown
