1.   The whole clan will be here over Christmas.

2.   The whole clan gets together for the holidays.

3.   A friend of mine is counting a new baby in the family as gift enough for the whole clan, and I think that is wonderful and suitable.

4.   Homer and the whole Simpson clan head for the Big Apple, with the usual catastrophic results.

5.   Jimmy Osmond produced the movie, and the whole clan signed off on it, according to the network.

6.   Unless I took the trouble to find out individual e-mail addresses, I had to speak to the whole clan or not at all.

7.   My grandfather was not well recently, thus the whole clan flew and drove back to Gong Kapas one hazy week.

8.   Pope John Paul II, vacationing in the Italian Alps, said he was praying for the whole Kennedy clan.