home folk

Example Sentences

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The bank did not open in the morning, but Warren Finney said, "All I've got will be used to take care of the home folk first."

From Time Magazine Archive

A group of America's "entertainment ambassadors" abroad brought together to show the home folk their sales pitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the almost fully mobilized Swedish Army trained in earnest, home folk began feverishly to dig huge underground shelters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ernest, in spite of his joy in actually going away to school, found home and home folk unexpectedly dear now that he was leaving them for many months.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell

I more than half suspect that your home folk will think that you and I are base-ball mad.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason