Already they are a tight little clique, a "fun bunch" for whom nothing could possibly go wrong.

Certain nonmilitary hardware was turned over to Elizabeth's little clique of dogooders.

I mean other than her not being part of your little clique?

They just don't let anybody inside their little clique just because.

There was a really heavy little clique, the same ones that ousted the governor.

The others disliked the Roberts set and had "little cliques of their own."

What went on within their snobbishly tight little clique?

There were fierce little miniature cliques in the class.

"You're still going to have your little cliques here and there," he said, "but the last few years everybody's pretty much hung out together."

"I'm not in any little cliques," the former law student says.