Word Finder - folks

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A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.

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The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

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(plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.

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Folk music.

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People in general.

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Young folk, old folk, everybody come, / To our little Sunday School and have a lot of fun.

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A particular group of people.

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The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents

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My folks visit us at Christmas.

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People in general; everybody or anybody.

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Lots of folks like to travel during the holidays.

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The police.

What do your folks think?

Where are all the folks going?

Most folks just call me Clara.

Lots of the folks on the street had poor teeth and most of their clothes were practically rags.

There were men and women, but no children at all, and the folks were all beautifully formed and attractively dressed and had wonderfully handsome faces.

You folks don't hear 'em 'cause you sleep down here, but upstairs is different.

Folks were a bit more formal back then.

The local folks call this spot the writing on the rock.

Do you folks know him?

There's not many folks in town she doesn't know.

They're real helpful folks at both places.

What everyone did to him makes me think of what those Pennsylvania Dutch folks do; shunning is it called?

And whenever he had to deal with this sort of folks, if he did not beforehand take a strong resolution of keeping his temper, he quickly fell into a passion; for he was naturally choleric, but his anger never lasted long.

According to local folks, Barotac Nuevo was famous for its well-bred horses.

Men frequently say to me, "I should think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer to folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially."

Folks,' she says, 'are all gone, so why,' she says, 'don't we go?'

There are lots of folks who would use their genie-wish to do just that.

Shut up; I told you not to interrupt... anyway, the damn thing went too fast for the old folks... over two miles an hour, I guess.

And the next time you pull a fast one like tonight, I'm going to personally stick you in an old folks home!

Folks are leaving the town, but you have come to it, said he.

All those folks were going about their business and now they're dead.

His folks were there when I was born and they're like second parents to me, but I'm not going to marry Josh because I'm lonely and poor.

Look what folks are saying.

I can see where the local law enforcement people wouldn't be thrilled with these folks looking over their shoulder and pushing them.

Going three thousand miles away sounds like a good idea for you folks, even if it's only for a couple of days.

The storm is swallowing up the levies, and we sent folks north.

It's also a bond that folks in my position have to be careful about taking on, because it leaves me vulnerable.

Who's gonna mind the ship while you folks are poking around in the ground?

You folks at Bird Song can get into more pickles than any group I know.

She was a minister's wife and did lots of good for folks.

Then he added, I've got to stay on the good side of them museum folks.

I forgot my new keys and didn't want to wake you folks.

I been trying to find out some poop about that guy on the Internet but it's a whole lot easier checking out hundred year old folks than living ones.

Folks around here tend to wear gloves in the winter when it gets that nippy.

These here genealogy folks take that stuff mighty seriously.

You don't meet many folks named 'Homer,' do you, Homer?

He takes the bus down every Wednesday—with the rest of the old folks.

Funny. Look, some folks check out early.

He had seen firsthand what the folks from Philly did to Billie Wassermann.

Everyone in New Jersey was traveling to Pennsylvania while all the folks in the Keystone state were spending their weekend on the Jersey shore.

He notes that at the congress of Vienna he received 22,000 florins through Talleyrand from Louis XVIII., while Castlereagh gave him £600, accompanied by les plus folks and his diary is full of such entries.

It was established, we are told, "because simple folks cannot distinguish the spiritual power from the sovereign power, and suppose that a supreme spiritual pastor is a second sovereign, the spiritual authority being regarded as higher and better than the temporal."

The city's charitable institutions consist of two general hospitals, each of which has a training school for nurses; a municipal hospital, an orphan asylum, a home for the friendless, two old folks' homes, and a bureau of charities; here, also, on a bluff, within a large enclosure and overlooking both lake and city, is the state soldiers' and sailors' home, and near by is a monument erected to the memory of General Anthony Wayne, who died here on the 15th of December 1796.

If you folks are committed to playing in this sand box, I'll do what I can to scrape out the cat poop but don't expect encouragement from me.

She experienced a revelation that fooling around prying into folks private business, regardless of the purpose, is sinful.

On the psychic angle; you can call it bull shit but I get strong vibes from folks above my pay grade that not everyone feels the way you guys do.

Being as some folks think I screwed it up over the past ten years.

Bird Song remained nearly empty during the week and half full weekends when get-away folks from Grand Junction, and sometimes even Colorado Springs or Denver, left the kiddies with grandma and snuck over the mountains for a little R and R. An occasional ice climber continued to remind the group of the receding memories of the recent tragic past.

He takes the bus down every Wednesday—with the rest of the old folks.

How many you nice folks out dere thinks I knows what I's talkin bout.