Folk

//fəʊk//

"Folk" in a Sentence (18 examples)

That folk singer is very popular with people in general.

I don't like all of these folk songs.

This is out of the blue, but has everybody once felt 'looked down upon by young folk'?

"Where's that superstition from?" "Call it folk wisdom."

However you could say that being found hard to understand by the common folk for one's genius is fate.

On the other hand, there seem to be those among young folk who, while touching on Buddhism, have started to think of it as a vital spiritual support.

My older brother started to take interest in Japanese folk songs when he was around 12 years old.

She can play all kinds of instruments, classical or folk.

But it is specially evil that the young maiden folk are exceedingly bold of speech and bearing, and curse like troopers, to say nothing of their shameful words and scandalous coarse sayings, which one always hears and learns from another.

In the 1960s, folk music was very popular.

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The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.

We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!

There were a lot of folk in the streets.

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

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”

I need to call my folks back home.

folk psychology; folk linguistics

Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.

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