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Example sentences for "colored folks"

  • Colored folks slept on cotton beds and white folks--some of em at least--picked geese and made feather beds and down pillows.

  • We colored folks had to make it here to Pine Bluff to the county band.

  • Colored folks couldn't read so they couldn't sing at church lessen they learnt the songs by hearing them at home.

  • All the fault I see in white folks running the gover'ment is we colored folks ain't got work we can do all the time to live on.

  • Colored folks used to use de Indian turnip in slave times.

  • Some of de colored folks is better off now and some is worser.

  • I don't know how come dey was so mean to us colored folks.

  • Patrollers "I heard about the pateroles catching the colored folks.

  • Schooling "Colored folks didn't get no learning then.

  • Capn, did yo eber hear of de "Chapel Hill" fight dat de colored folks en de white folks hed in Mississippi?

  • Dey wuz s'posed to have done lots of beatin' of colored folks, but nobody knowed who dem Ku Kluxers wuz.

  • It warn't near large enough for all de folks dat was sick wid smallpox at one time, and so dey finally got to whar dey used it jus' for de colored folks, 'cause it seemed dat smallpox went harder wid dem dan wid de white folks.

  • Howsomever, he say dat as long as de Lord, de Son, and de Holy Ghost is wid de President, it'll be all right for us colored folks.

  • Nearly all de white folks leavin' de country dese days and de colored folks gits de fine country houses to live in.

  • Once a week he was given biscuits, though this was a luxury to colored folks.

  • I think this new generation of colored folks is awful.

  • That was the big freedom to us colored folks.

  • They sure better not ketch a gun at the quarters of colored folks.

  • Jim Smith had near bout a hundred head of colored folks on his place.

  • Colored folks didn't like 'em taking all they had to eat and had stored up to live on.

  • Now when the smallpox raged the colored folks had it seem like heap more and harder than white folks.

  • We colored folks have to pay just the same as the white.

  • Lowest down is a layer of white folks, then in de middle is a layer of colored folks and on top is de cream, a layer of good white folks.

  • For de plantation use, dey didn't burn none of de colored folks' houses nor de old boss' house.

  • Of course dere was only a few families living in de town, and only one or two families of colored folks.

  • For a long time I worked at different kinds of odd jobs, sometimes in de coal mines and sometimes on de farms, but for several years I've run a little store for de colored folks here in Russellville.

  • When that strike come on they told us colored folks to quit and I never went back.

  • I hear of colored folks doin' dat now to dare chillun when dey don't do.

  • Dere was nineteen houses in de street for us colored folks.

  • I ask you if dere ain't a heaven, what's colored folks got to look forward to?

  • When de war wuz over, ole man Jones cone over frum Georgia and sell t'ings to de colored folks.

  • Despite its conglomerate architecture this is a better "colored folks'" house than many in the Black Belt.

  • Marsa hid his money and lots of his fine things in de colored folks's houses.

  • Eve'ybody had to go on Sunday; de white folks sittin' in de front, de colored folks in de back.

  • We was 'lowed to visit de colored folks on de Eastman and Carter plantations dat joined our farm.

  • Hogue, and old Father Murrow preached for de white folks all de time and us colored folks went to church wid dem.

  • Dey would pull up at de shore and entice de colored folks onto de boat to see de purty things.

  • Colored folks used to run off and stay in the woods.

  • The main thing was to make the colored folks go to work and not steal, but it was carpet-baggers stealing and go pack it on colored folks.

  • I seed a whole drove of colored folks pushin' and scrouging in there so feared they wouldn't get the best seat an' miss somepin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colored folks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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