kinfolk

Example Sentences

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Of course, like most Americans, we were paying no attention whatsoever to developments in Sudan before the fighting started — and before we learned that our own kinfolk were in danger.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2023

Cozzens also takes an admirably nuanced approach to the Muscogee, Cherokee and Choctaw, who assisted Jackson over their Red Stick kinfolk, a detail that further complicates simplistic renderings of Indigenous-White relations.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023

The story line in “Shucked” is partly a corollary to the real-life relationship between Horn’s Yankee family and his husband’s Southern kinfolk.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

As she watched volunteers pass out turkeys, she said she was “taking care of my kinfolk here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2021

Thinking about the kinfolk health histories was the only time I found comfort in being adopted.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan