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
Tom Hanks plays a former Confederate Army officer tasked with shepherding an orphaned girl across Texas to her surviving kinfolk in the 2020 western “News of the World.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2021
And it all started in those early years with her inclination to view trees as kinfolk.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021
He thinks a Black cartoonist might also be uniquely critical and uncowed by the diversity of the Biden administration: “There’s an old saying in Black culture: ‘All skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.’
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2021
She told Mama Tataba we could get by on things that looked less like kinfolk.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing kinfolk
The Classical Period, c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE
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2.1: Classical Empires in East Asia (Sources 1–8)
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The Only Black Girls in Town
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