American English pronunciation
How to pronounce ilk
IPA transcription: ['ɪlk]
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Noun
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a kind of person
“We'll not see his like again”
“I can't tolerate people of his ilk”
Usage examples
- They brought with them a recipe for making cheese from sheep's milk.
- It contains the towns of Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Sandiacre and fourteen civil parishes.
- Milk the cow but don't pull off the udder.
- Queen's Counsel wear a more elaborate bar jacket as well as a silk gown.
- His name for that trio was "Bingo to Bango to Bilko".
- There was extensive damage to its milk factory, with large storage tanks toppled.
- He was succeeded by David Wilkie.
- Nothing is as elastic as the silk of a spider.
- Milk the cow but don't pull off the udder.
- Caramilk bars are produced at one location, the company's Gladstone Chocolate Factory in Toronto.