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

The story line in “Shucked” is partly a corollary to the real-life relationship between Horn’s Yankee family and his husband’s Southern kinfolk.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

A pastry chef hosts her kinfolk for the holidays in the new TV movie “A Chestnut Family Christmas.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 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