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folk

Folk are people. Often, doctors have difficulty explaining things to ordinary folk like me. Lots of folks are worried about their jobs. Your folks are your parents. I'm not sure if I can get the car. I'll have to ask my folks. Folk music, dance, art, etc., is traditional and belongs to the ordinary people. I remember reading about him in a collection of folk tales. The children are learning Russian folk songs in school.

folk

(= folks, common people) people in general (often used in the plural) they're just country folk folks around here drink moonshine the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next (= tribe) a social division of (usually preliterate) people (= family) people descended from a common ancestor his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower (= folk music) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

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Simple sentences

It's commonly supposed that all fairy tales are stories from the folk tradition, passed through the generations by storytellers since the dawn of history.
I don't like all of these folk songs.
While clearly outside of his element at, say, a Western-style karaoke bar, he could easily whip out a Brazilian folk song in seven-eight meter on his berimbau.
Tom played a Spanish folk tune on his English horn at a Chinese restaurant in France.
There's nowt as queer as folk.
She knows many folk dances.
He knows many folk dances.
I like folk songs.
What's your favorite German folk song?
In the 1960s, folk music was very popular.
Tom likes folk music.
Tom became a folk hero.
Tom is a folk hero.

Movie subtitles

To call God's folk to church And now to sound a burial hymn.
He's in his bed, where all decent folk should be at this time of night.
To us, the simple folk, the Germans bring certain death.
Forward, peasant folk, now it's our turn to hit the Germans!
Well, you tell the young English lady underneath. that I am putting on record for the benefit of mankind. one of the lost folk dances of Central Europe. and furthermore, she does not own this hotel.
I met her husband. He presented prizes at the folk dance festival.
At the moment, you know, I'm writing a book on folk dancing.
No, nor any of my folk.
But I'm also convinced that stories of this creature. have been so greatly exaggerated in the telling and the retelling. that the simple folk of this neighbourhood now believe him to have been. the most fiendish monster that ever walked this earth.
We ain't allowing' no stranger to come in and hide among us. and turn our mountain folk away from their learning'!
Everybody there must have known that old folk song.
And those, except for one. were humble folk.
Don't easterners have legs like other folk?
We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.
Tell her that I am putting on record for the benefit of mankind. one of the lost folk dances of Central Europe. and she does not own the hotel.
I met her husband, he presented prizes at the Folk Dances Festival.
I'm writing a book on folk dancing.
Heaven help honest folk in a hotel like this.
I have some rather curious information that at regular intervals six Nazi bombing planes come over and drop their deadly cargoes on non-military objectives, a meadow or a sheep folk.
I sure hope there's some coloured folk on that boat.
The wild fervor of the Highland people reveals itself during the frantic moves of the folk dance.
And now we come to the folk song, or traditional type of melody.
I am obsessed with how lovely the folk singing is.
I'd like to use a folk theme, Something American if I can find it.
Say, where are the married folk?
It's rare to find such decent folk.
These folk must be made to pay.
Glad to hear there'll be folk in it again.
Clarissa, i always say it doesn't pay to inquire too closely into the background of us summer saratoga folk. Take you, clarissa. You call yourself a lady, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you are one, does it?
You think people with villas, salons, cars want to fool poor folk like us? No.
They'rejust like city folk, Miss Farley, except that they have a sense of fairness.
Poor folk need it, too.
He was stirring up the folk with his devilish talk.
Stint not the silks and velvets - give them all to the poor folk.
Look how happy the folk are.
Remind of me the folk of Novgorod and my beloved.

News and current affairs

But what does it mean to say that financial folk are paid too much?
The City of London, lower Manhattan, and a few other centers became money machines that made investment bankers, hedge-fund managers, and private equity folk immoderately wealthy.
In Eastern European folk tales, vampires are nocturnal bloodsuckers who have risen from the dead.
The Fed folk are paid a little better, and stay rather longer.
Surplus rural folk could find land to till in the New World's vast frontiers or industrial employment in its growing cities.
Mussa was also remarkable for a flamboyant presentation of his views, which was hard for some IMF folk to tolerate in so stuffy environment.
Folk ideas about heredity are a particularly powerful cultural tool, but they are not unique to pre-modern societies.
But like any other peoples, our own application of that information to the puzzle of our existence is strongly influenced by our non-scientific ideas, our pervasive folk ideologies of heredity.
Because national, religious, and folk traditions are supposed to be protected across the Union, our unsavory habit of slaughtering squealing pigs can be preserved even as Romania enters the EU.
And he would have to battle a folk memory that has lasted several generations: the last time Britain helped to save Europe, it stood very much, and very proudly, alone.
Folk singers have been threatened, abducted, and forbidden to sing in public.
The protesters, led by a 15-year-old student, now a folk hero, have retreated, but that, too, is a tactical decision.

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