How to Use Klan in a Sentence

Klan

noun

• An open gate with two Klan gnomes on top ushers visitors into the next gallery.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• Black joined the Klan 18 months after the trial, Davies said.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Klan once claimed as many as six million members in the 1920s.
  — Aram Roston, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Also, when they were confronted by racist police, by the Klan—most often one in the same back then.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 27 July 2023
• True to its roots, though, the modern-day Klan still comprises bored guys looking for buddies.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• The Klan and its ghoulish doings were greatly diminished, but the hate endured.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Klan organized a boycott of her stockyard, forcing the business to close. After 1964, Mars largely stopped taking photos but remained obsessed with the murders.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• Anti-mask laws didn’t weaken the Klan — public backlash did, decades before the law was ever used against them.
  — N. Goldberg, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2025
• Reports of fliers connected to the Klan have popped up across Indiana and Ohio.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• The Klan staged rallies and committed murders, shootings, and arson.
  — Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
• Stout said his network has links to the Klan, which has splintered and shrunk dramatically since its peak a century ago.
  — Aram Roston, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
• Santa Fe Klan switched effortlessly between fiery rap verses with cumbias that sent tfhe crowd dancing.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
• In his essay, Reynolds goes into the depredations of the Klan, which were horrifying.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Because of his military background and sniper training, he was easily accepted by the Klan.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• The two have stolen enough from warring mob families to buy an old sawmill from the Klan, with plans to transform it into a bustling watering hole for the community.
  — A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
• So while a tired and scarred Sammie returns to his preacher dad, ex-soldier Smoke rounds up machine guns and heavy weaponry to take on Klan members.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
• 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
• In another echo of the Klan, its signature cross burnings, swastikas are set alight at AFN gatherings.
  — Aram Roston, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
• The scene in which Anderson single-handedly faces down both the corrupt deputy and the Klan’s most murderous henchman is a master class in range.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
• But there’s no time to revel in their victory — Smoke sends Sammie home, because Remmick warned them that the Klan is coming.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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
• And coming out of the South, being chased by the Klan, being chased by the mob, the government and the Nazis, that sums up the landscape in which this story takes place.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2024
• 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
• In May, Reuters attended a modern-day Klan ceremony held in a clearing deep within the woods on private land in northeastern Kentucky.
  — Aram Roston, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
• 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
• When, in 1987, protesters marched through Forsyth to shed light on its racist underbelly, they were met with jeers and rocks hurled by white supremacists, including members of the Klu Klux Klan.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024