Example sentences for: moscow

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

  • The apartment bombing, the fourth in Russia and the third in Moscow in the past two weeks (the cumulative death total: at least 266, says the LAT ) is, report the papers, like its predecessors, widely viewed by the Russian authorities as the work of Islamic terrorists working with or sympathetic to the Chechen and Dagestan insurgencies.

  • While this disclosure failed to excite those observers who think that the main issue is whether Yeltsin will live to see out his term, it was described in the Moscow Times as "noteworthy" in view of the speculation that has been going on in the Russian media for years that he will never voluntarily give up power.

  • The same is true for Honey's assumptions about Buddha , which he implies is universally pronounced in AE with the vowel of boot ; about Moscow , the second syllable of which is not always rhymed in AE with cow ; about Nepal , which is pronounced identically to the British (RP) way by many AE speakers; and about Vietnam , the -nam of which, contrary to the author's information, is pronounced by many AE speakers to rhyme with dam , not palm . As for Pakistan , Americans tend to give both a sounds the same quality, whether they rhyme them with that in father or in man . On the other hand, the pronunciation of Afghanistan in Britain follows either the pattern of Pakistan , which has the a of man in the first syllable and that of father in the last, or, as in America, is heard with the a of man in both positions.

  • One of the stories he includes is how Israel's Yediot newspaper recently went to Moscow and bought Russian spy satellite photographs of new Scud missile bases in Syria, and then hired a private U.S. expert on satellite photos to analyze the pictures.

  • Under the headline "Not a Merry Christmas For Everyone," the Moscow Times , while recognizing that residents of the capital were better off than the rest of Russia, writes that "even here in the showpiece of Russian society, tens of thousands of people have lost their savings in the collapse of the country's banking system.


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