Use folks in a sentence
Sentences starting with folks
- Folks know pretty well I'm not mixed up in 'em. [9]
- Folks rich once,--smashed up. [6]
- Folks work harder to enjoy themselves than at anything else I know. [4]
- Folks are leaving the town, but you have come to it," said he. [2]
- Folks come here poor and they go away rich. [6]
- Folks who will never draw another sober breath till they do it in the grave. [5]
- Folks had read letters laid ag'in' the pits o' their stomachs, 'n' why should n't they see out o' the backs o' their heads? [6]
- Folks don't suspicion it. [9]
- Folks all well, I suppose? [5]
- Folks is carried away there. [4]
Sentences ending with folks
- Miss Clara Browne wrote home to her mother in the same terms as Miss Florence Smythe,--that the school was getting dreadful common, and they were letting in very queer folks. [6]
- Therefore, on the whole, if he were a superior fellow, incapable of mistaking it for personal conceit, I think I would let out the fact of the real American feeling about Old-World folks. [6]
- But what's the use of good looks if they scare away folks? [6]
- Perhaps I am uncharitable in my judgment of those sour-looking people I told you of the other day, and of these smiling folks. [6]
- He'd been aout to Spraowles's party,--there wa'n't anything to hender him why he shouldn't stir raound l'k other folks. [6]
- You'll not have to feel any call to mention that debut in the Atlantic--they've made me pay the grand cash for my box!--a thing which most managers would be too worldly-wise to do, with journalistic folks. [5]
- No matter whether 'tis a babe or an old woman, he'll talk, and talk, and talk, till they believe in him, poor folks! [11]
- Don't spiders have their mates as well as other folks? [6]
- I don't suppose that the thoughts which came up of themselves in my mind were so mighty different from what come up in the minds of other young folks. [6]
- I could have saved you all that unnecessary trouble of seein' folks. [9]
Short sentences using folks
- White folks ain't partic'lar. [5]
- Folks, this is O'Ryan's night. [11]
- Plain folks, you know--plain folks. [5]
- You're both literary folks. [9]
- Country folks, the Bonapartes--country folks? [9]
- Look what folks are saying. [2]
- How's your folks? [6]
- Folks are queer. [4]
- Folks are foolish! [2]
Sentences containing folks two or more times
- Yet it was right I should try and get her folks to come, if she had any folks. [11]
- Live folks are only dead folks warmed over. [6]
- Going out that morning she had seen some fence up the road that needed mending, and she told Mr. Devault that she didn't like such shiftlessness; she didn't know as white folks was much better than colored folks. [4]
- She wouldn't stay here a day, but the Colonel was a friend of her folks, the firstest folks in Greenville. [4]
- I know the folks that think they're dying as soon as they're sick, and the folks that never find out they 're sick till they're dead. [6]
- L--like country folks better than city folks? [9]
- I know there's a lot in it for them that need it; and there seems to be a lot of folks needing it, if I'm to judge by folks down there at Jansen, specially when there's the laying-on of hands and the Healing Springs. [11]
More example sentences with the word folks in them
- But do beg your folks to remember that the Smithfield fires are all out, and that the cinders are very dirty and not in the least dangerous. [6]
- Some of them young folks is very artful,--said her mother,--and there is them that would merry Lazarus, if he'd only picked up crumbs enough. [6]
- Don't believe no wrong of nobody, not till y' must,--least of all of them that come o' the same folks, partly, and has lived with yo all their days. [6]
- De yuther servants wouldn' miss me, kase dey'd shin out en take holiday soon as de ole folks 'uz out'n de way. [5]
- Ef I can't work jes' as I choose, fur folks that wants me to work fur 'em and that I want to work fur, I might jes' as well go to Sibery and done with it. [6]
- Poor folks must work for themselves, and not for others. [10]
- If your friend will do us humble folks so much honor, I beg he will step into our room; it is clean, is it not sir? [10]
- I reckon my wife will want to camp in the California range, though, because most all her departed will be there, and she likes to be with folks she knows. [5]
- The only thing which we old folks do not willingly relinquish is personal comfort, and I thank you for enduring annoyances so patiently for the sake of securing mine.--It is a terrific summer! [10]
- There were jellies, which had been shaking, all the time the young folks were dancing in the next room, as if they were balancing to partners. [6]
- The business on which folks want me, will keep cold, especially at this season. [12]
- I don't know what some folks think so well as I know what some fools say,--rejoined the Little Gentleman.--If importing most dry goods made the best scholars, I dare say you would know where to look for 'em.--Mr. [6]
- Do you know what meddling with the folks without names, as you call 'em, is like?--It is like riding at the quintaan. [6]
- With folks goin' West, and all that, nobody seems to want it much. [9]
- You see, America was occupied a billion years and more, by Injuns and Aztecs, and that sort of folks, before a white man ever set his foot in it. [5]
- You see, I was full of the knowledge and experience of seventy-two years; the deepest subject those young folks could strike was only a-b-c to me. [5]
- You see, everybody was a-movin' from the old buryin'-ground, and our folks was 'most about left to theirselves, as you may say. [5]
- And folks don't want you when you're shabby. [9]
- The folks shut up at Harrod's said it was sure death ter cross the mountains now. [9]
- Some folks set traps for the mole; but my moles never seem to go twice in the same place. [4]
- He talked glibly to those folks in all those seven languages and still had a language to spare! [5]
- He was going to tell folks pretty straight how the railroad beat him for mayor. [9]
- When folks begin to slap faces at home, look out when they get into the street. [11]
- I've been talkin' to Putnam County folks some, and you hain't lost nothin' by this. [9]
- Thousands went out to meet him, as though he were the Saviour; they erected triumphal arches, even folks of my creed--no one thought of hanging back. [10]
- That's what appeals to me, and to some other folks I know--especially when we take into account the situation you was in and the chances you had. [9]
- His rule appears to have been to state just so much of the truth as would leave on the mind of his readers a correct impression, at the least cost of pain to the sensitive folks he was writing about. [5]
- We may happen to be very dull folks, you and I, and probably are, unless there is some particular reason to suppose the contrary. [6]
- It's like goin' to another world without any folks to bother you. [9]
- That 's the time to watch folks, when their jaws get a-goin' and their eyes are on what's afore 'em. [6]
- It was not till I had had a lesson which came upon me all too soon, that I took heed in such matters; and the time was at hand when men folks thought more about me than I deemed convenient. [10]
- These folks in this canton leave a road to make itself, and then fine you three francs if you 'trot' over it --as if a horse could trot over such a sarcasm of a road. [5]
- It is thought they will do nothing if our folks nominate men who are not very obnoxious to the charge of abolitionism. [7]
- It is thought they will do nothing if our folks nominate men who are not very [undecipherable word looks like "obnoxious"] to the charge of abolitionism. [7]
- But what faces these young folks make up at my good advice! [6]
- What's left is these two lots here--just the gem of the whole patch for general style and outlook; they're for me and my folks, and you and yourn. [5]
- I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him. [5]
- Those folks up there are too good for this world. [4]
- The roads over there are not so very sensitive; paraschites and other unclean folks pass over them every day. [10]
- If they show themselves where they have no business, the little rascals frighten honest folks worse than ever people were frightened by the Dragon of Rhodes! [6]
- All things have their uses and their part and proper place in Nature's economy: the ducks eat the flies--the flies eat the worms--the Indians eat all three--the wild cats eat the Indians--the white folks eat the wild cats--and thus all things are lovely. [5]
- The waggons stopped the way, and neither could the rest of the train, nor their armed outriders, nor our own folks come past, by reason that the ditch was full deep and the underwood thick. [10]
- Some time before the tavern took down its sign the landlord had built a hall, where many a ball had been held, to which the young folks of all the country round had resorted. [6]
- You knew Riklein, the spinster, whom folks called the night-spinster; and was not she a right loving and cheerful soul? [10]
- Since that time the sheriff and his folks have let him alone and minded their own business. [6]
- While Susan and the other serving folks, with certain of the retainers brought by our guests, were searching the house through, I hastily did on my shoes and garments for out-door wear, and albeit it was already dusk, I went forth. [10]
- It didn't worry the old folks none, an' the only worry to me was Milly's everlastin' prayin' an' workin' to save my soul. [13]
- It will make the hair of some folks curl. [5]
- So I told the folks I reckoned I would go up to the town and fetch down my baggage. [5]
- There is n't the change in folks people think,--same thing over and over again. [6]
- I'll give you the broad view of this subject, the view I've got to take, and I've lived in the world and seen more of it than some folks who think they know it all. [9]
- He's a stranger; that's why all the folks out here want to save him if it's possible. [11]
- It's Miss Badlam that's ahlwiz after her, an' a-watchin' her,--she thinks she's cunnin'er than a cat, but there 's other folks that's got eyes an' ears as good as hers. [6]
- I have found that some of those active exercises, which are commonly thought to belong to young folks only, may be enjoyed at a much later period. [6]
- It is whispered that our two young folks are to be married before another season, and that the Lady has asked them to come and stay with her for a while. [6]
- It was you tells the Connetable what folks babbled, and the Connetable tells the Sieur, and the Sieur it kills him dead. [11]
- Folks, had to tell her things. [9]
- There's been a talk about our havin' a celebration in the Parnassian Grove, and I think I could work in what your folks don't want and make myself whole by chargin' a small sum for tickets. [6]
- There was some talk about his not being so long-sighted as other folks, but his old patients laughed and looked knowing when this was spoken of. [6]
- Them pusses that take care of old rich folks marry 'em sometimes,--'n' they don't commonly live a great while after that. [6]
- Go for the swell-fronts and south-exposure houses; the folks inside are just as good as other people, and the pleasantest, on the whole, to take care of. [6]
- In England the swell folks don't speak of the working people as gentlemen and ladies? [5]
- Others say that such a definition is nonsense; that a church is an organization, and the scattered good folks are no organization at all. [6]
- Many simple folks squatted in circular groups on the ground, and joined in the burden of songs which were led by an appointed singer, to the sound of a tabor and flute. [10]
- At least those sort of folks are often built askew, as that scoundrel was," replied Alexander, lightly. [10]
- The music was soon sounding merrily again in the solemn town-hall, and of all the young folks who danced so gleefully, and laughed and chattered Ursula was the last to let it be seen how this grand revel had been troubled by her fault. [10]
- Well, there was some runnin' of folks before we got to the stores. [13]
- After a while some of those folks got out and a German gentleman and his two young daughters got in. [5]
- The folks in some of the neighboring towns had a joke against them, that a Rocklander could n't hear a beanpod rattle without saying, "The Lord have mercy on us! [6]
- Well now dey's some folks says dey ain't no 'ficiency in prah. [5]
- Am I then so much wiser than other folks, or do none but fools come to consult Hekt? [10]
- By and by she sat suddenly upright, for a comforting thought had flown through her worried mind-- "'T ain't no sin--_white_ folks has done it! [5]
- Years ago, I sent some of it home to the folks in England. [4]
- The invitations were sent out before sunset, and straightway the young folks of the village were thrown into a fever of preparation and pleasurable anticipation. [5]
- Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him; so he was satisfied, and said he would do it all just as Tom said. [5]
- I did n't see many of the folks eatin' oranges. [6]
- She went to see her folks half a year after she was married, and on her way back, on a Saturday evening, the Indians captured her within five miles of this place, and she's never been heard of since. [5]
- The Cleveland folks say they can be induced to do a little better by me, and urge me to come out and talk business. [5]
- What do folks say in the settlements? [9]
- Our leeches extract salves from bitter gall and deadly poisons; and folks like these--" "Hatred speaks in thee," said the haruspex, interrupting the indignant old man. [10]
- Dah, now--de preacher said it his own self, en it ain't no sin, 'ca'se white folks done it. [5]
- I'm only a rough old man, Cynthy, and I don't know much about the ways of fine folks. [9]
- As for the rest--and there was a deal of property of our own and of other folks in these wood-piles--well, in time we shall get over that. [10]
- Mr. Meigs, the refined, the fastidious, the man of the world, who had known how to adapt himself perfectly to Mrs. Benson, might nevertheless have been surprised at her implication that he was "like our folks. [4]
- He need never redeem the first, and it is given some folks to coin gold ducats out of humbler folks' sins. [10]
- If you have really got more brains in Boston than other folks, as you seem to think, who hates you for it, except a pack of scribbling fools? [6]
- There 's no radical club like a nest of little folks in a nursery. [6]
- He was wont, quoth he, to take good care not to risk his skin for other folks, but in this matter it seemed to him not too dear a bargain. [10]
- Nay--we may be prouder than you; for you great folks must often say to yourselves that you are worth less than men value you at, and we know that we are worth more. [10]
- She was a Presbyterian, the folks round here mostly Baptists and Methodists. [4]
- Our folks seem possessed to stick a foreign name on to everything. [4]
- They were all poor country people in the church, for the castle in which the old family had lived, was an empty ruin, and there were none but humble folks for seven miles around. [12]
- But yet, fair Paula, I think we have some straight-limbed folks who can make use of such crooked phrases, too, when occasion serves. [10]
- And which of our old folks, knowing all this, thought, as the spring subsided, of their own failing strength, and lessening life? [12]
- You folks have our most sincere sympathy. [5]
- Well, you let our folks build you a vessel--down New Bedford-way. [5]
- To win one or two suits of this kind will set literary folks on a firmer bottom. [5]
- I'm ridin' an old moke on errands for him whin his hired folks is busy. [11]
- Some of the old folks looked on, others conversed in groups and pairs, and so the evening wore along, until a little after ten o'clock. [6]
- Wine's good for old folks like Sophy and me, after walking a good way, or preaching a good while. [6]
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