8 sentences with 'folk'

Example sentences and phrases with the word folk and other words derived from it.

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« Ginseng root has been an esteemed remedy in Chinese folk medicine for centuries. »
« The Brothers Grimm collected dozens of folk ("fairy") tales and published them in the first definitive collection in German. »
« This made him a folk hero, and he terrified the nobility of Rome because he was able to bypass the usual Roman political machinery and simply pay for his wars himself. »
« The Czechoslovak national anthem, a fusion of a Slovak folk song and a Czech hymn, was split in two: the Slovaks kept the livelier part, the Czechs the slower, more solemn part. »
« The central idea of the folk movement was that the essential truths of national character had survived among the common people despite the harmful influence of so-called civilisation. »
« These folk traditions, from folk songs to fairy tales to the remnants of pre-Christian pagan practices, were the "true" expression of a national spirit that had supposedly lain dormant for centuries. »
« In the past, the Estates (Estates) General had consisted of three separate groups, representing the clergy (the First Estate), the nobility (the Second Estate) and the prosperous city folk (the Third Estate). »
« Of course, many young people were active on both counts, listening to folk music or rock and roll, experimenting with the various drugs that became increasingly common and available, but also joining the anti-war movement, the second-wave feminist movement or other forms of protest. »

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