How to Use kinfolk in a Sentence

kinfolk

plural noun

• The father had a massively fresh gash, from his right wrist, up across his whole hand, from banging and breaking iron and glass, to save his kinfolk.
  — Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Often maintaining a certain distance from our kinfolk can help keep us together.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Stars may be in town to perform, attend premieres and mingle with industry kinfolk, but who can blame them for breaking into the real world for a bit of queso and conversation?
  — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Self-defense became second nature to the British-Indian schoolboy, who organized street patrols to protect his kinfolk in Manchester.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 June 2023
• In many ways, the relationship between these kinfolk communities is mutually beneficial and harmonious.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• Many of them were engulfed by settlers and forced to live on mountainous and agriculturally unproductive land, separated from their kinfolk who had migrated, with their cultural and political systems in a shambles.
  — David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020