folk - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • guess: I guess folk having epics approached from the track to the north.

Adjective modifier

  • ordinary: A man who stood for what he believed to be right, loved by the ordinary folk.
  • cunning: Cunning folk were more likely to be those purporting to carry out beneficial practices, love magic, or locating lost items.
  • elderly: Why did housing officers from Knowsley Council/Housing Trust move heroin addicts into decent tower blocks populated by elderly folk and decent tenants?
  • old: The people who rob or con or harm our old folk should be put in the stocks in Kirkby Town Center.
  • everyday: This Culture Online project includes contributions from curators from museums and galleries and compelling stories from everyday folk using pictures, words and video.

Modifies a noun

  • tale: What about using folk tales to talk about globalization?
  • singer: No, no, he's a folk singer.
  • song: God only knows trains needed folk songs late last year!
  • music: William of Orange Like most folk music, all of human life is in these songs.
  • revival: And beyond them and feeding them, the folk song revival, the saving of a fading past by Cecil Sharp and George Butterworth.
  • lore: There is folk lore to say there used to be a Roman temple up at the top end of Beer.

Noun used with modifier

  • fisher: Trawl fishing began in 1882, attracting fisher folk from coastal settlements in Kincardineshire and as far south as Northumberland.
  • peasant: The peasant folk lived in dark, dank cottages with a fire in the middle of the floor.

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