How to Use splinter group in a Sentence

splinter group

noun

• The remaining members of the original group then hunted and killed all the males in the splinter group.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
• Anthropic was formed from a splinter group of former OpenAI employees, including Amodei, who left the company because of differences over its direction and to focus on safety.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Feb. 2026
• Those bandits are not connected to militant groups such as Boko Haram and the splinter group Islamic State West Africa Province, whose attacks on communities and government installations are motivated by religion.
  — CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
• The West African nation has been fighting an insurgency for more than a decade, with Boko Haram and its splinter group, the Islamic State of West Africa Province, in addition to several amorphous groups commonly referred to as bandits.
  — Pelumi Salako, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• Three men were acquitted of murder Friday in the 2019 killing of Belfast journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot by a member of a dissident Irish Republican Army splinter group while covering a riot in Northern Ireland.
  — ABC News, 3 July 2026
• Amnesty International said that attack took place in the village of Mussa near Sambisa Forest, a stronghold of militants from Boko Haram and its splinter group, an Islamic State affiliate known as the Islamic State West Africa Province.
  — ABC News, 17 May 2026
• More recently, in 2023, the People’s Initiative of New England, a splinter group of the neo-Nazi organization National Socialist Club-131, introduced themselves on the online platform Substack.
  — Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025