Example sentences for: folk

How can you use “folk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Your "Summary Judgment" column is nothing short of Talmudic in its commentary, and the ironic humor of "The Week/The Spin" reminds me of the Jewish folk tales my grandparents used to recite to me back in Czechoslovakia.

  • The creation of folk art is an unconscious aesthetic expression of community social and cultural values, and religious folk art is the aesthetic reproduction of images and symbols for a religious or spiritual purpose.

  • A milagro is literally a miracle, but in folk religious practices milagros are tiny objects presented to a saint at a shrine or church, as a token or offering intended to fulfill a vow made to that saint.

  • Lawyers are mad folk in general, but their madness crescendos, according to Professor Mellinkoff, in their “consuming passion for precedent .’ Mesmerized by the “ritual phrase’ stare decisis , they delve into that shelf-devouring monster of confusion known as Words and Phrases and come forth with “language that the profession accepts as precedent,’ thus investing such terms as accident and proximate cause with a false precision.

  • It was the ur-text for the folk music boom of the early 1960s.


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