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, 2024-01-31
• The Klan sprang up largely in response to Black suffrage.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 2023-11-27
• Black joined the Klan 18 months after the trial, Davies said.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 2023-08-11
• And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2023-12-20
• True to its roots, though, the modern-day Klan still comprises bored guys looking for buddies.
  — Harper's Magazine, 2024-06-25
• The Klan and its ghoulish doings were greatly diminished, but the hate endured.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 2023-11-30
• 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, 2025-04-09
• Reports of fliers connected to the Klan have popped up across Indiana and Ohio.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, New York Times, 2025-01-23
• The Klan staged rallies and committed murders, shootings, and arson.
  — Outside Online, 2025-03-05
• Because of his military background and sniper training, he was easily accepted by the Klan.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 2023-04-27
• 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, 2025-04-17
• 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, 2023-05-16
• Three Klu Klux Klan members were belatedly convicted of their murders.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 2024-04-12
• 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 imagery is shocking: naked bodies, an upside-down cross, hooded Klan members, chains, hammers, sickles, swastikas and ladders leading to nowhere.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2025-02-06
• 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, 2025-03-01
• 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, 2025-04-19
• 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, 2023-04-29
• 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, 2024-10-05
• 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, 2024-06-17
• Communists, Klan members and fascists were battling one another, according to Life.
  — Tom Stanton, Detroit Free Press, 2024-02-12
• Smoke sends Sammie home, choosing to stay on his property and fight a violent invasion from the Klan, ultimately finding peace in death.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 2025-04-24
• 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, 2024-02-29
• 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, 2024-07-09
• 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, 2023-06-30
• 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, 2024-10-08
• With Jim Crow, an imperfect church, economic despair, and the Klan looming, the film underlines again and again the essentiality of love—not as an antidote, but as an alternative, an entirely separate mode of experiencing the world.
  — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 2025-04-22
• The painting features robust, muscular figures in the style of Michelangelo and references the Klan, Nazism, torture, communism, and the Inquisition, evident in such forms as a swastika, hooded figures, a cross, and a hammer and sickle.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 2025-02-03