American English pronunciation

How to pronounce ilk

IPA transcription: ['ɪlk]

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Noun

  • 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.