Example sentences for: brezhnev

How can you use “brezhnev” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the '60s, he succumbed to schizophrenia, believing himself a "messianic figure of great but secret importance" and writing cryptic messages, such as "Mao Tse-tung's Bar Mitzvah was 13 years, 13 months, and 13 days after Brezhnev's circumcision."

  • Saying that the Kremlin's attitude toward human rights has scarcely changed since the time of Leonid Brezhnev, the paper said Russia should be threatened with expulsion from the OSCE if it doesn't pull back from Chechnya.

  • I honestly believe that if Reagan and Gorbachev had not come to power when they did--if Brezhnev had lived, and if Carter had served a second term, and Mondale and Dukakis had succeeded him--the Soviet empire would be intact today.

  • They would come to class in the morning to find runic messages he had written on the blackboard at night: "Mao Tse-Tung's Bar Mitzvah was 13 years, 13 months, and 13 days after Brezhnev's circumcision."

  • Duvalier went with exile to France, Noriega went with prison, and Brezhnev, I believe, is now a privately owned cement factory near Sverdlovsk.


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