Example sentences for: duma

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

  • The papers all note that not only did Chernomyrdin get voted down by the Duma again, but that the chairman of the central bank resigned.

  • The converse, however, is not true: A big thing made tiny is not comic; it's cute, a dollhouse, a teddy bear, a bonny wee Boris Yeltsin no bigger than your thumb--he can ride to the Duma on the back of a mouse, if he's not too drunk.

  • The daily paper Segodnya (circulation 100,000) claimed in its lead story that proceedings to impeach President Boris Yeltsin look set to become a permanent feature of the Russian Duma (parliament).

  • An adviser to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov (Kremlin foe) told the LAT that the Kremlin's campaign for Duma seats "makes Richard Nixon's presidential election bids look clean."

  • USA Today goes with the Russian Duma's confirmation of Vladimir Putin as Russia's new prime minister--an odd choice considering the confirmation was a fait accompli .


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