Sentences with ilk
ilk
I i - He currently terrorises politicians and their ilk on 'Newsnight'.
- People of that ilk should not be allowed here
- A convergence of factors have created a global food emergency of an ilk not seen in at least 50 years, says Professor Alan Dupont.
- Word processors and their ilk are already going through insurance companies and banks like scythes.
- He and all his ilk.
- Ross of that ilk, i.e., Ross of Ross.
- Roaming the countryside looking for work and stealing fruit and livestock from Phoeba and her farming ilk when jobs are denied them.
- Players of this ilk are always surrounded by the conundrum of whether they actually help or hinder in the long term.
- Although the use of ilk in the sense of sense 1 is sometimes condemned as being the result of a misunderstanding of the original Scottish expression of that ilk, it is nevertheless well established and generally acceptable