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

"A big house draws kinfolks like a horse draws nitflies," said Mother.

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

“No, we ain’t. Now make haste, son. I don’t want no kinfolks or neighbor ladies seein’ what we done and buttin’ in with suggestions.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns