How to Use babushka in a Sentence

babushka

noun

• Fishman isn’t the only one who has come to love the food of his babushka.
  — Deena Prichep, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• Now, Rocky is giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the process behind his signature babushka.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
• For those who don’t fish for keeps, or for those whose haul exceeds the limits of their bellies, an old, dumpling-faced Russian woman in a babushka takes up the slack.
  — Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
• An old lady in a babushka greets him warmly and congratulates him on his great new gig as a bakery delivery man.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 4 May 2020
• Instead of hats, the Moscow crew favors silk babushka-like headscarves and, on sunny days, teeny-tiny sunglasses.
  — Style Du Monde, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018
• Russian concept store owner Olga Karput also kicked back in style, hanging out like a Vetements babushka with a head kerchief and floral gloves.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2018
• The babushka-wearing elderly women sweeping the vast square early every morning used bunches of twigs tied to short broomsticks.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
• Wearing a scarlet knot of lipstick like a Matryoshka doll, with her hair frequently wrapped in a babushka scarf, her appearance — like her clothes — is a million miles from that of Rubchinskiy’s.
  — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2017
• Liberals in the United States have always had good things to say about socialism, which is communism’s prettier younger sister who doesn’t wear a babushka or have a hairy mole on her cheek.
  — Christine Flowers, Philly.com, 13 July 2017
• In some villages, babushkas lay down in the roads blocking Ukrainian tanks, officers said, and in one, an especially cunning babushka kept stealing the soldiers’ helmets.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2022
• In one image, a babushka boy rocks a dainty scarf to punctuate a clean white Polo shirt; in another, a show-goer wears a floor-sweeping scarlet dress resembling papal robes.
  — Stephen Tayo, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2019
• One mother has decided to adopt multiple personas: a Russian babushka, a cynical Brooklynite and a Scottish woman who loves the outdoors.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Meredith Arwady unleashes her huge contralto as the comic babushka Amelfa.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• All languages borrow words from other languages — Americans may recognize agitprop, sputnik, babushka or cosmonaut.
  — David Filipov, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024