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

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

But many other Cuban exiles, particularly those who had no close kinfolks among the prisoners, were bitterly opposed to the ransom negotiations.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I reason I will get to stand before Jesus with all my childrens and grandchildrens and great-grandchildrens and kinfolks and friends and I say to him, “Jesus Christ, us is all sad colored peoples.”

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers