Sentence examples for folk down from inspiring English sources

Not many young folk down there, though".

Elliott said: "I live in Dorset and I know plenty of old folk down here who love that sort of stuff".

Gregory Gonzales, arm bent up like a hammer, is a preacher who gets the folk down on their knees to pray.

But, generally speaking, we in southeast Somerset, unlike folk down on the watery levels or up on the bleaker Mendips, are fortunate not to be too often seriously threatened by the weather or reminded of the force of the elements.

"Our chums in Jockestan are subsidised to the tune of over £8 per passenger journey, whereas the folk down here who travel further and create more wealth are down to £1 per journey".

Despite the best efforts of a floundering MC ("We're about to get crazy, we're about to get mental, we're about get insane!") and the addition of live drums, few but the folk down the very front even give a crap. .

Come fall, we are a village again — just a couple of thousand folks, down to the hard core from the sixfold or sevenfold swelling of the summer months.

"Folks down here kind of like to touch and feel the merchandise" is the way a Cullman banker named Dan W. Mann puts it.

"He gets them up the tree but how do you get those folks down again?" complains Margarete Bause, the leader of the Green party in Bavaria's state parliament.

"I understand that there's a history of politics being all about slash and burn and taking folks down," Mr. Obama, of Illinois, told reporters.

In a news briefing on Tuesday, Mr. McConnell said he suspected that "folks down at the White House are pulling for failure" by the panel, because an agreement would tend to disprove President Obama's portrayal of Congress as dysfunctional.