kinfolks

Example Sentences

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"I hit Bonavena so hard it jarred his kinfolks all the way back in Argentina."

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2016

But many other Cuban exiles, particularly those who had no close kinfolks among the prisoners, were bitterly opposed to the ransom negotiations.

From Time Magazine Archive

For two hundred years the Robertson "kinfolks," who number about 1,000, have inhabited the valleys of the ruddy Twelve Mile River and the glassy Keowee, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Murmured one radio engineer while Emmy and her "kinfolks" rattled the control-room windows: "She sure knows how to keep that program hopped up."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she begun to cry and I says All right all right I have as much pride about my kinfolks as anybody even if I dont always know where they come from.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner