ilks

Example Sentences

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Me and my ilks, she wrote in a purposely ungrammatical way, get set in our ways, too, and have expectations of a certain level of knowledge, decorum and protocol.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2017

He conjures questions of complexity and context, or survivalists and capitalists and collectivists and dentists, of all the ilks, some say pewter, others bronze.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2016

We all hope that the talented and the curious, people of all races and ilks will be still drawn to visit or live there.

From Time • Nov. 20, 2015

A much larger fine is certainly appropriate for the ilks of a company which so willingly breaks the law.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2015

They went throughout those provinces, carrying also ilks, and chinaware—products of the resources and skill of the Chinese.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander