home folk

Example Sentences

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The bank did not open in the morning, but Warren Finney said, "All I've got will be used to take care of the home folk first."

From Time Magazine Archive

While the almost fully mobilized Swedish Army trained in earnest, home folk began feverishly to dig huge underground shelters.

From Time Magazine Archive

A group of America's "entertainment ambassadors" abroad brought together to show the home folk their sales pitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Putting this cable together with yesterday's we all of us feel that the home folk are beginning to yawn and rub their eyes and that ere long they may really be awake. 4th June, 1915.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir

Of course you are having a charming time with your home folk; well, you deserve it, and I hope you will make the most of it.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason