How to Use Klan in a Sentence

Klan

noun
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  • And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Black joined the Klan 18 months after the trial, Davies said.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The Klan sprang up largely in response to Black suffrage.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Also, when they were confronted by racist police, by the Klan—most often one in the same back then.
    — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • An open gate with two Klan gnomes on top ushers visitors into the next gallery.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But even the demonic Klan didn't plan on Maryse Boudreaux and her resistance fighters, who have the arsenal and the fury to take down the white hoods.
    — Lizz Schumer, goodhousekeeping.com, 16 May 2023
  • True to its roots, though, the modern-day Klan still comprises bored guys looking for buddies.
    — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • The Klan and its ghoulish doings were greatly diminished, but the hate endured.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In the show’s most shocking moment, a child appears wearing a Klan hood, and some in the audience erupted in laughter; others sat silent.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Edgar Ray Killen, a part-time preacher and Klan leader who got off with a hung jury in the federal trial, was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter.
    — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • While the Klan would loudly protest this decision, it was never overturned, and throughout the 1920s Klansmen and Klan meetings simply were not seen in Louisville.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
  • The discussion that followed the screening touched on the area’s history with the Klan’s presence, and how its legacy still exists today both in the county and elsewhere.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
  • To many observers, that sounds uncomfortably close to the kind of threat that the Klan used to issue to civil rights activists, and that modern-day racists continue to spout today.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • Santa Fe Klan switched effortlessly between fiery rap verses with cumbias that sent tfhe crowd dancing.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Because of his military background and sniper training, he was easily accepted by the Klan.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Any great opera has a brutal death, and Springer’s offing at the hands of someone who was probably actually gunning for a Klan member in Act 1’s finale is brutal indeed.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This monstrous cinematic masterpiece was released in 1915, and the Klan reëstablished itself as a newly vindictive force of terror the same year.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • With the passage of the new law, the Klan’s racist, white supremacist, and xenophobic worldview had become mainstream, supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.
    — Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024
  • In a cruel but not unusual betrayal of justice in that era, a jury later convicted Hayling of assaulting the Klan members.
    — Mark Dorosin, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • Special counsel Jack Smith also accused Trump of violating a law written to target the Klan, along with other federal crimes.
    — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Three Klu Klux Klan members were belatedly convicted of their murders.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
  • So, unfortunately, is the Klan, which is intent on wresting control of the city from its people and putting it under white, capitalist authority.
    — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • Communists, Klan members and fascists were battling one another, according to Life.
    — Tom Stanton, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2024
  • When an anonymous Twitter user had objected to police vehicles blocking Brooklyn turning lanes, Adams had compared this person to a Klan member.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Simultaneously stylish and intimate, romantic and down to earth, Klan 414 has earned its biggest hometown show to date, as an opener for one of the fest’s hottest bookings, emerging phenomenon Ivan Cornejo.
    — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • Why did Indiana residents so wholeheartedly embrace the Klan?
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2023
  • Nationally, the Klan was in the middle of a huge expansion, capitalizing on cultural upheaval and white Protestants’ desire to maintain the status quo to fill the ranks of their white supremacist organization.
    — Joshua Kagavi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Guston’s Klan paintings kneecapped supremacists through humor.
    — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • Einsatz told Schiano about plans for an unauthorized torch march that night through the University of Virginia campus—a deliberate evocation of the Klan.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024

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