How to Use kinfolk in a Sentence

kinfolk

plural noun

• On a big family night, the local fans were like kinfolk too.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2022
• Among my Ghanaian kinfolk, a man is considered to have a clear duty to protect his sister if her husband isn’t doing right by her.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2019
• The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to break the silence with genetic kinfolk or keep quiet.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• Fortunately for friends and kinfolk, they won’t be matched up directly as both play on the defensive line for their respective teams.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 19 Sep. 2019
• And if there was an underlying theme beyond appealing to a wide swath of fans, a handful of artists with famous kinfolk are taking center stage throughout the four-day festival.
  — Joshua Klein, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
• But don’t bother trying to sign up your kinfolk to play the game where families compete by guessing what the most popular audience survey answers to questions might be.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Both greenwings and cinnamons accompany their more populous blue-winged kinfolk on the early fall flight.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• Michael Beard, a family friend who had recruited the volunteers from among kinfolk and friends, designated one trailer for refuse and another for items worth saving.
  — Kevin Sack, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2017
• As if there weren’t enough questions, some of these latter-day Darnes detectives speculate that the two men bear an uncanny resemblance and that they might be connected by blood—perhaps brothers or some other kinfolk.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• These people congregate at Bigfoot conventions around the world to swap stories, trade evidence-gathering techniques and commune with kinfolk.
  — Leah Sottile, Outside Online, 5 July 2016
• Unfortunately, outside of their kinfolk, they were met with derision, prejudice and vehement xenophobia.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• In many ways, the relationship between these kinfolk communities is mutually beneficial and harmonious.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024