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Example sentences for "menfolk"

Lexicographically close words:
mends; mene; mener; menester; meneth; menfolks; menhaden; menhir; menhirs; meni
  1. The menfolk who participated removed their coats and hung them beside their hats on wall pegs.

  2. Whereupon neighbor menfolk pitched in and dug the well.

  3. Jim will have his hands full, Unless she’s used to menfolk and their ways, And past the minding.

  4. German women have always been devoted to their homes and their families, and they are as subservient to their menfolk as the Japanese.

  5. Schools and offices all open so early that a household must of necessity be up betimes to feed its menfolk and children with bread and coffee before their day's work.

  6. When her menfolk are peasants, she must work in the fields; when they belong to the middle or upper classes, her place is in the kitchen and the nursery.

  7. She had in her forget-me-not blue eyes the look of a child who has never been allowed to grow up; and I knew at once that she was one of those women kept by their menfolk on a high shelf, like a fragile flower in a silver vase.

  8. Thomasin sat gripping the tiller while the voices of her menfolk came to her ears.

  9. Perran-an-zenna is a mining village, and some of the menfolk work in the tin mines close at hand, and some in the big silver mine four miles away.

  10. She gazed into the fire and grew moody, as was her wont when she had chanced to think of her menfolk that Cromwell had executed.

  11. I cannot be minded of my menfolk but my head will ache.

  12. Listen to me: When my menfolk were cast to die, I flew to Gardiner to save them.

  13. When all my menfolk were slain by the headsman something broke in my head, and ever since I have laughed.

  14. The two menfolk were out now every day getting stone for the walls of the new house.

  15. Did the two menfolk imagine the child was blind?

  16. For women living alone and having no menfolk to send to the offices, this was especially annoying.

  17. Granger, being well aware that the fool says with his lips what the wise man knows in his heart, had determined that both the menfolk of his adopted house should play the fool that night.

  18. And here at home two menfolk go strutting about doing nothing and expecting to be waited on.

  19. And Karna, who was moving to and fro while the menfolk ate, had a round, comfortable figure, and was carrying a big bread-knife in her hand.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "menfolk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    man; manhood; men