How to Use Russian in a Sentence

Russian

noun

• Like Trump, the Russian doesn’t drink and rarely sleeps.
  — Peter Bart, Deadline, 1 Dec. 2024
• The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine was aware of the plans.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• For the Russian Gorbunov, the venture marks his first trip to the space station.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
• Available sources claim that the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was among the dead.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• At the end of the scene, the Russian and the Ukrainian take turns humping each other from behind.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• The idea for Black Russian Label was planted in de'Shay mind.
  — Kayla Jackson, AZCentral.com, 17 Mar. 2024
• The posts are mostly in Russian, but there are also a few in English.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
• Stir it all together for a quick, makeshift White Russian.
  — Emily Price, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Alcaraz won the fourth set in much the same manner after breaking Medvedev at 3-3 when the Russian sent a backhand long.
  — Ava Wallace, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• Lockshin’s producers distanced themselves from him — but that was not enough to keep them in the good graces of the Russian Cinema Fund.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2024
• The tablet menu has options for Ukrainian, English, and Russian—and staff say the majority of clientele speak the latter.
  — TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
• French artist born in the former Russian Empire, known for his sculptures, paintings, and lithographs in the Cubist style, at Givenchy.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2023
• As the Russian War in Ukraine approaches the 2-year mark, for Ukraine's 40 plus million citizens, there appears to be very little to be hopeful about.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, Bondar and her family, who still live in Ukraine, switched from speaking Russian to Ukrainian.
  — Alex Haddon, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2024
• In this corner of Norway’s far north, just five miles from the border with Russia, road signs give directions in Norwegian and Russian.
  — Melissa Eddy Patrick Junker, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• The Russian Defense Ministry has been contacted for comment via email.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
• Likewise, Roscosmos benefits from this arrangement to ensure there's always a Russian on the space station, even in the event of a problem with Soyuz.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
• Georgia once belonged to the Russian Empire and more recently was annexed by the Soviet Union.
  — Eve Hill-Agnus, ARTnews.com, 18 July 2024
• The Russian Defense Ministry said that drone attacks in other regions were thwarted.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• The house of worship was expropriated and given to a Russian Ministry.
  — Peter Pomerantsev, TIME, 20 Apr. 2024
• As the drone closes in, the Russian can be seen creeping forward toward the Ukrainian lines, apparently unaware of the danger overhead.
  — Brian Mann, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
• Also in the group of 10: American high jumper Erik Kynard, who finished second to another Russian found to be doping.
  — CBS News, 30 May 2024
• Likewise, the loss of a single tank is hardly comparable to that of a warship—such as the Russian Navy's flagship Moskva, which was sunk in the spring of 2022—or the recent capture of Avdiivka.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• This type of cross was once prohibited in the Russian Empire, which at various points included parts of modern-day Poland.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
• His grandfather, a journalist and historian, was arrested in 1937, and forced to do hard labor in the Russian Far East.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
• Over the centuries, as Shakespeare’s reach extended worldwide, Ukraine, under the sway of the Russian Empire, entered its own fraught relationship with the playwright and his works.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
• Parents are racing to enroll their kindergarteners in Russian Math.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 25 July 2023
• Killing the tsar also killed Narodnaya Volya, but the regime was unable to reform, and 30 years later the Russian Revolution overthrew it.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2023
• Trying to control the situation, the Russian Central Bank raised interest rates to 21% in October, the highest in decades.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
• It was dubbed into Ukrainian rather than Russian, and linguists have highlighted how well its American slang was rendered.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025