kinfolk

Example Sentences

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The best example of this is the famous "Key & Peele" skit of President Obama reserving dap for skin folk and kinfolk alike while extending the standard handshake for white folks.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

Cozzens also takes an admirably nuanced approach to the Muscogee, Cherokee and Choctaw, who assisted Jackson over their Red Stick kinfolk, a detail that further complicates simplistic renderings of Indigenous-White relations.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 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