Example sentences for: gorky

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

  • Rosenfeld turned to Stone (Kamenev) , Scriabin to Hammer (Molotov), and Peshkov became Bitter (Gorky).

  • And other figures in the Soviet pantheon or nomenclatura were likewise immortalized: Samara became Kuibyshev; Ekaterinburg was renamed Sverdlov; Simbirsk was renamed Ulyanovsk , a derivative of Lenin's original surname; Nizhnii Novgorod was renamed Gorky; and so on across the map of Russia and to a lesser extent of the USSR.

  • His fat serpentine strokes and lacquer-smooth planes twisted around each other, arriving at exuberant new combinations that sometimes echoed his old friend Arshile Gorky as well as Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian, painters whose final work was similarly buoyant.

  • Gorky, the child of difficulties, wrote much about the wretched.

  • Conversely when cities like Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk or institutions like the Kirov Theater or streets like Gorky Street regained their original names, it was rather as if they had got back on track, as if they had been on a siding since, say, the tsar and his family were murdered at Ekaterinburg.


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