kinfolk

How To Use kinfolk In A Sentence

• Mobilising her natal familija, most of her son's agnatic kinfolk, and many other unrelated families in the village through persistent negotiations, she mounted a vigorous campaign for her son's election.
• Some kinfolk are coming over for breakfast and I haven't even caught any fish yet. Portland "ugly" and "minor-league" to Sports Illustrated (Jack Bog's Blog)
• Afterwards, waving smiley good-byes as the screen door slammed inside the last manure-footed fly of the season, we would pretend this was the most enjoyable and relaxing sojourn ever undertaken by the Midwest kinfolk; who now are worn out, corn-fed, under-financed, and facing several hundred miles of back-breaking, exhaust-choking, bug-splattering, road-hog crowded highways returning home. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 609
• their kinfolk is a subject matter expert, sigh …. Boy Genius Report
• Feasts that celebrate deceased kinfolk are still very important celebrations.
• All his poor kinfolks came to spend their holidays at his home.
• The kinfolk (including myself at times) would often take to reasoning with her (in addition to the tantalizing bouts of teasing) concerning this hairdo.
• In many Aboriginal societies, certain kinfolk stand in what are called ‘avoidance relationships’ with each other.
• Though a few women penned their observations of non-European societies prior to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (most notably Lady Wortley Montagu), this new wave of lady explorers traveled globe not as mere appendages to their male kinfolk, but as scholars in their own right. Lady Explorers | Edwardian Promenade
• He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk.