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How to use posse in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Posse means a group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. Example: “The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.”

Examples of posse by meaning

nounA group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

  • The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.1972, Mortimer J. Adler with Charles Van Doren, chapter 3, in How to Read a Book, Touchstone September 2014 edition, New York, NY: Simon &...

nounA group of people summoned to help law enforcement.

  • Mathews then appointed Morton as a deputy sheriff and after a posse had been selected, they went in pursuit of the criminals.1986, Donald R. Lavash, Sheriff William Brady, Tragic Hero of the Lincoln County War, Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 77
  • While Wyatt dismounted and aimed his shotgun at Brocius, the rest of his posse retreated.2013, Andrew C. Isenberg, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, Hill and Wang, →ISBN, page 165

nounA criminal gang.

  • Jamaican posses can be traced back to the Jamaican neighborhoods, and posse names correspond to the names of each neighborhood in which the gangs operate.1997, Michael D. Lyman, Organized Crime, Prentice Hall, page 287

nounA group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of...

  • But the few friends that I DO have are my “ride or die” chicks—my posse.2014, April Boyd-Noronha, The Soul of a Single Parent: How to Snapback and Get Your SWAG On, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 77

More sentences with posse

  • Calloway's story was, why someone so glamourama was riding herd over a posse of captive graffiti artists.2012, Susan Andersen, Bending The Rules, →ISBN. From the entry glamourama
  • You're clockin if you think me and my posse would bite your Nine or dukey rope.1990, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, page 245. From the entry dukey
  • One probably should not say there was a trufan, even in posse, until the stfield had been defined by Amazing Stories.1955, John Bristol Speer, “The Phanerofanish Eon”, in Fancestral Voices, page 79. From the entry stfield
  • A posse of Wiggaz rapped about da thug life outfitted in the bangingest, blinge blingingest ghetto superstar gear available at the Ocean County Mall.2002, Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling Novel, page 57. From the entry bangingest
  • He has his posse of stylist-kakis.2000 July 2, Yeow Kai Chai, The Sunday Times (Sunday Plus), quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English…. From the entry kaki
  • Thus, too, we have the woman social reformer, trailing along ridiculously behind a tatterdemalion posse of male utopians, each with something to sell.1918, H. L. Mencken, In Defense of Women. From the entry tatterdemalion

Meaning of posse

  1. noun A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
  2. noun A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
  3. noun A search party.

Full definition of posse

Questions about posse in a sentence

How do you use posse in a sentence?
Posse is used as a noun. For example: “The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.”
What is a short sentence with posse?
“He has his posse of stylist-kakis.”
What does posse mean?
Posse means a group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: posse (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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