old folk
Example Sentences
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Out in the fields of the Jordan valley, Palestinian women still sing old folk songs as they harvest the olive groves.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
China's 1980 to 2015 one-child policy means smaller families are expected to support the old folk, some of whom would have no choice but to seek professional elderly care, investors say.
From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2023
Wong, of Los Angeles County, likened Newson’s proposal — and the idea that counties have extra money to implement it — to the old folk tale about making soup from a stone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2022
Americans “had to cling to something,” observed the writer Walter Weyl, and in the absence of their old folk customs or local institutions, “the temptation to cling to party became ruthless.”
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021
Some she had invented to entertain her children; others were old folk tales told to her by her own mother and her grandmother.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
