kinfolk

Example Sentences

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The best example of this is the famous "Key & Peele" skit of President Obama reserving dap for skin folk and kinfolk alike while extending the standard handshake for white folks.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

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 didn’t look fond of the idea of letting her kinfolk fight without her, but she didn’t argue, either.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia