How to Use cabal in a Sentence

cabal

noun

• But each brand in this tiny cabal gets at most a C+ from Stand.
  — Alden Wicker, Wired, 13 Nov. 2021
• The cabal finally gave up after it was proven that their charges were false.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
• The Dem Party was run by a cabal of donors and insiders.
  — FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• Menendez has denied the charges and blamed a shadowy cabal trying to tarnish his name.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2023
• And almost no one—except for the conservative cabal that bagged the whale—had heard of him.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• After a raucous sit-in at his office by outsiders, our small cabal of staffers was welcomed.
  — Ellen Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• Squid Game revealed a global cabal of rich people wearing masks who have been doing this for a while now.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
• Most of them were addicts mentored by King and hired by his CrossFit cabal.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• The stories since have opened up a world that includes a monster-killing cabal and its sinister politics.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
• Its premise says that a secret cabal of elites are supposedly helping people of color take the place of white people.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
• That small cabal of handlers pulling the strings and feeding his ego, lust for revenge and greed are the real culprits who must be held accountable.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
• There is no cabal of pinkos sitting in a secret lair deciding to make Wikipedia a left-leaning entity.
  — Imogen West-Knights, The Dial, 10 Feb. 2026
• The comic then opened up its world, focusing on the monster-killing cabal and its sinister politics.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
• Including exposing the cabal of rich and powerful elites that enabled this.
  — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• In these circumstances, even newsrooms not in thrall to the hard-right cabal would be hard-pressed to strike the right tone, to see the big picture, to earn the consumer’s trust.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• Elected by a cabal of powerful Venetian families, the doge (at first, anyhow) ruled for life.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
• The industry long relied on a globe-trotting cabal of guests, but border closures kept many away during the pandemic.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 8 May 2022
• That is now believed by some to be connected to a cabal that allegedly rigged the 2020 election.
  — Ellen Friedrichs, Parents, 14 Oct. 2023
• Jeffrey Epstein's cabal of politicians, bureaucrats, and elites who turned a blind eye must be held accountable.
  — Anna Commander gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
• Jeffrey Epstein's cabal of politicians, bureaucrats, and elites who turned a blind eye must be held accountable.
  — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
• In Cape Town, an anonymous cabal of graffiti artists had taken its name from this anarchic creature.
  — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Unfortunately, Sam makes a mess of her own by killing the son of a rival cabal, leaving its leader hellbent on revenge.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 July 2021
• QAnon, that cult-like movement operating under the belief that a secret pedophile cabal runs the world, was losing steam.
  — Maria Konnikova, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
• As writers we’re used to the DGA’s tire tracks, but this time the secretive cabal that runs that place, threw its own members under the bus.
  — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• There are multiple strains of this theory, each with its own twist on which real cabal Kubrick was supposedly exposing.
  — Lane Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
• We're introduced to a cabal of cannibals in the pilot's first few minutes, dressed in animal hides, and the presumptive leader is wearing antlers.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
• The film’s villains are common criminals, not the shadowy cabal of occultists imagined by QAnoners.
  — Herb Scribner and Will Sommer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• But the things that the Gottheimer cabal sought to achieve, such as blocking tax increases on the wealthy and on corporations, aren’t popular with the public.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
• QAnon adherents believe the government is controlled by a Deep State cabal of pedophiles.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• The election was stolen by a cabal of Democrats, socialists, immigrants, criminals, Black people, and spies.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023