kinsfolk

Example Sentences

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“It’s not for me or my story. It’s for my kinsfolk,” he said.

From Washington Times

Many people are going to the countryside; others have moved within the slum to be closer to their kinsfolk.

From Economist

As one local from Mukalla explained: "What do you expect us to do? Fight them? They are our kinsfolk. We let them go about their business."

From BBC

A joke quickly made the rounds: The wild turkeys had somehow learned their kinsfolk were on platters.

From Washington Post

The new prioress set to work in earnest to make the nunnery into quite a new and imposing place and her friends and kinsfolk rallied round her nobly.”

From Project Gutenberg