Example sentences for: chekhov

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

  • Written during a feverish tuberculosis fit when Chekhov was in his early 20s, titles include: "On the Train," "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," "From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper," and "Elements Most Often Found in Novels, Short Stories, Etc." A story reports from a funeral directors' convention--they see big business in millions of aging baby boomers.

  • (For an exquisite illumination of these matters, see Richard Gilman's recent study, Chekhov's Plays: An Opening Into Eternity .)

  • British playwright David Hare wins praise for adapting Chekhov into colloquial language, though the melodrama of the original is said to remain.

  • 5, Chekhov."

  • No author's name, not even Shakespeare's, has the talismanic effect of Chekhov's.


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