Get to know Folks better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like kin or kindred.
Folks in a sentence
Related words
Folks meaning
- The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents
- People in general; everybody or anybody.
- The police.
Using Folks
- The main meaning on this page is: The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents | People in general; everybody or anybody. | The police.
- Useful related words include: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred.
- In the example corpus, folks often appears in combinations such as: folks in, folks who, of folks.
Context around Folks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Folks
- In this selection, "folks" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, black, congress, trans, specifically, coming and got stand out and add context to how "folks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include lot of folks on the, and other folks who ve and black folks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "folks" sits close to words such as accessible, reviews and shouldn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with folks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rural folks traditionally don't move around as much as city folks. (12 words)
You've got a lot of folks on the far left, and a lot of folks on the far right. (20 words)
Folks — specifically Black folks — had a really robust and clear vision for news, journalism, information, and having their stories lifted up. (21 words)
Emerald City Comic Con is going to provide a bumper crop of infections, and as those folks come from all over the country to attend, more than a few of those folks are going to get more than a goodie bag to take home with them. (46 words)
A specific moment in time, simultaneously captured and reduced in such a manner to sell the younger folks on the setting while making the older folks do the "Leonardo DiCaprio finger point meme" every five seconds. (36 words)
And we have 30 active conversations going on right now that other folks that called us or folks that we reached out to that we knew would be interested in this sort of thing. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
And I saw in folks from Detroit and folks from Chicago, this love for community and this love for where you come from.
And we have 30 active conversations going on right now that other folks that called us or folks that we reached out to that we knew would be interested in this sort of thing.
Folks — specifically Black folks — had a really robust and clear vision for news, journalism, information, and having their stories lifted up.
I had been speaking with folks in Congress, folks in the FTC and various federal agencies for years and at one point I testified in front of Congress.
I’m also hearing it from folks and, you know, like I’ve had, you know, a pretty healthy experience of folks coming up and saying hi, Rachel.
It made a lot of sense for us to focus on the most impacted in that moment, which was trans folks and queer folks.
Just as FOX questioned and people on FOX, Russia collusion; just folks here questioned masks; just as folks here questioned lockdowns, and we happened to be right.
The bad debtors are folks like Lawrence and the Andersons who have engaged in bad conduct, and of course the court is not going to have trouble finding folks like that in contempt.
Well it looks like some folks got stuck on a platform in the middle of the lake on Sunday when a pretty decent sized alligator paid the fine folks at visit.
You've got a lot of folks on the far left, and a lot of folks on the far right.
A specific moment in time, simultaneously captured and reduced in such a manner to sell the younger folks on the setting while making the older folks do the "Leonardo DiCaprio finger point meme" every five seconds.
It’s not going to be readily available to folks in Fort Nelson, folks in Terrace or Fort St. John for that matter,” Davies said.
Rural folks traditionally don't move around as much as city folks.
Well, that didn't seem to go over well with folks who were fans of Eisenberg, Hackman, and other folks who've portrayed The Man of Steel's arch-nemesis.
About that “almost no one can get a test” statement – plenty of folks in the entertainment industry seem to be able to get tested while the regular folks can’t.
Emerald City Comic Con is going to provide a bumper crop of infections, and as those folks come from all over the country to attend, more than a few of those folks are going to get more than a goodie bag to take home with them.
If these government numbers are accurate, then the folks engaged in “Irrigation” in Archuleta County utilize quite a bit more of our local water resources than do the folks who are engaged in agriculture.
And right on cue white Christians—many who have not forgiven Black folks for being Black—rushed to cite Bible verses and to pat the poor mislead folks on the head.
Folks suggested back then that the FBI was involved in their murders in a conspiracy to silence outspoken Black folks, a la J. Edgar Hoover.
Most companies look at security as a binary, with the good folks on the inside and the bad folks kept outside.
Phrases with folks
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with folks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- folks in 19×
- folks who 17×
- of folks 14×
- folks that 11×
- the folks 11×
- and folks 10×
- folks are 10×
- folks with 10×
- black folks 9×
- folks and 8×