How to Use ilk in a Sentence

ilk

noun
  • The club attracts punk rockers and others of that ilk.
  • And the fact that there really isn’t anything of this ilk here right now.
    Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2022
  • In that sense, Dobbs was flagrant but only one of many dozens of cases of the same ilk.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • There were sports teams, clubs of every ilk, bowling alleys, and dances most nights of the week.
    Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • Start with Episode 1, which gets into the mythopoetic men’s movement that set the stage for Tate and his ilk.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • There’s a word that gets thrown around about artists of Cronenberg’s ilk: prescient.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2022
  • Other videos of the same ilk mock the situation and even the people involved.
    Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Ambassador is of the same ilk, but with blooms that are of a deep violet-purple.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Altman and his ilk have to talk up a big game in order to get the massive sums of money in order to set up AI.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The founding is a sort of catechism for Anton and his ilk, but that doesn’t apply to the New Right vanguard.
    Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Now add to the mix ChatGPT and its ilk, which can make many jobs much easier to perform.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • This one is no instant classic, ranking more along the lines of April Fool’s Day than the gold standard of its ilk, Halloween.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There's no practical need for something like this, just as there's no need for a McLaren, Ferrari, or any of that ilk.
    Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Well, this is just another version of that same ilk of advice.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Jeff King, Martin Buser and others of their ilk are not racing much, but still keep dogs.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • If that trend doesn’t reverse soon, LVMH and its ilk could be facing a very cool summer indeed.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Riley Irving joins a small ilk of Black women agents in major sports leagues.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 14 July 2023
  • Some fans may simply miss all the CGI candy we’ve been conditioned to expect from movies of this ilk.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • These appalling incidents join many others of the same ilk.
    Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 17 Oct. 2020
  • All the angst over the state of Batman, Superman and their ilk comes despite the movies doing pretty well during the last four years.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Ivey and her ilk are fine keeping the Confederacy on a pedestal.
    Kyle Whitmire | , al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • And then there are capital-H Healing places of the enchanted ilk.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Like the best thrillers of this ilk, though, its darkest impulses do not weigh it down but rather give it a sadistic, jet-black comic edge.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s a question of that ilk: Which healthy player on Cleveland’s roster can change the game like George Pickens did with his 71-yard-touchdown?
    Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The socialization is his favorite aspect of taking part in this event and others of its ilk.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2022
  • Now, amid the pushback against ChatGPT and its ilk, the pendulum has swung back hard, and we’re warned against empathizing with these things.
    Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • There’s an explanation, at least, for how drongos pull it off: For meerkats and their ilk, the cost of assuming that alarm calls are fake is just too high.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2022
  • People use to pop in, Charlton Heston, people of that ilk.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2022
  • My latest of this ilk: ‘Shuggie Bain,’ by Douglas Stuart.
    Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
  • But if the point of buying out a private island was maximal privacy, then what Grand Velas and its ilk are offering couldn’t be more different.
    Linda Laban, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024

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