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

As she watched volunteers pass out turkeys, she said she was “taking care of my kinfolk here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 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

It was no use selling 8800 since kinfolk from Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina were now moving in, and on most days, they gathered on the sidewalks and the porches for gossip and cookouts.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi