How to Use Ukrainian in a Sentence

Ukrainian

noun
  • It will be shot primarily in English with some Ukrainian and Polish.
    Peter White, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
  • His hope was that their army would run out of men before the Ukrainian one did.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
  • At the end of the scene, the Russian and the Ukrainian take turns humping each other from behind.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Pegula, who entered with a 2-0 record against the Ukrainian, built a 5-1 first set lead.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Newsweek has reached out by email to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry for comment.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • As high-tech as this war is, Honza and the others with us can’t tell if its Ukrainian or Russian.
    Nic Robertson, CNN, 13 May 2023
  • Adding a romantic line in Ukrainian, Yara made a vow to her husband.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Quotas in film, TV, and radio also increased the use of Ukrainian.
    Lydia Tomkiw, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
  • War has turned a pristine, white-sand beach near the Ukrainian Black Sea resort town of Odesa into a crime scene.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the shells, according to Ukrainian and U.S. officials, have been old and performed poorly, with a high dud rate.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • After 500 years, speeches and songs in Ukrainian once again refer to Bakhmut as a fortress—a place whose function is to stop the enemy and to protect.
    Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The very identity Ukrainian, in his opinion, should no longer exist.
    Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The tablet menu has options for Ukrainian, English, and Russian—and staff say the majority of clientele speak the latter.
    TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Pompeo also took a seat last fall on the board of Kyivstar, a leading Ukrainian telecoms company.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 23 July 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
  • His entire family joined the new Ukrainian Church right after Bartholomew recognized it, in 2018.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At the same time the final roster in the men’s 100-meter was being decided on Sunday, Ukrainian Yaroloava Mahuchikh was wowing the crowd with her soaring high jumps.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The book’s Spanish translation will be released this month, followed by Ukrainian and more than 10 other languages.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This is especially vexing on the southern front in Zaporizhzhia province, where a Ukrainian break through the Russian lines would mark a definitive swing in the arc of the war.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • Six miles south, on the southern Zaporizhzhia front, the Ukrainian Army has punched a hole in the formidable defenses Russia has built along the six-hundred-mile frontline.
    Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As about eight Ukrainian journalists asked about five minutes of questions in Ukrainian, none concerned the invasion.
    Chuck Culpepper, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • The local governor of Russia's Belgorod region said that Ukrainian shelling on Sunday killed a man and a 16-year-old girl, and wounded at least 12 other people.
    Emma Burrows and Dasha Litvinova, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In comments to the Ukrainian Pravda newspaper, Yusov said Russia had previously mounted false-flag attacks on the plant.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Later that afternoon, an armored vehicle carrying some of the Ukrainian wounded roared up to the headquarters, loaded some equipment and raced out of the city.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Last week, a Ukrainian sea drone hit a Russian tanker near the bridge, while an attack on the bridge last month killed a couple and seriously wounded their daughter, leaving a span of the roadway hanging perilously.
    Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The missile tore through the main square just before noon, as people were leaving church after celebrating a holy day, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.
    Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The survey, conducted in September by the Razumkov Center, a Ukrainian think tank, reveals that more than 80% of respondents would vote in such referendums.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Ukrainian Khorne drone group, which supported the breaching operation, rejected the Kremlin’s claim—and criticized the media that covered the breach on Thursday.
    David Axe, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The Kremlin has already largely dismissed the Ukrainian counteroffensive as a failure.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • There were doubts about the Ukrainian's future at the Bernabeu last season, amid poor performances whenever called upon to stand in for number one goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024

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