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

From 660 B.C. to 1940 A.D., according to the Japanese credo, the sons of Jimmu Tenn? ruled and begat, with the aid of Shoguns, concubines and kinfolks.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For two hundred years the Robertson "kinfolks," who number about 1,000, have inhabited the valleys of the ruddy Twelve Mile River and the glassy Keowee, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge.

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