Example sentences for: nabokov

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

  • Should she write New York Times op-ed pieces about bad Republicans, or should she just write novels like Nabokov?

  • The New York Public Library is also getting in on the action with an exhibit of Nabokov's manuscripts and personal effects, such as his glasses and butterfly net.

  • Most of his translations--including Mary , Nabokov's first novel--are of literature, but he also translated Boris Yeltsin's autobiography, Against the Grain .

  • After initial jeers, critics extend a warmer welcome to Martin Amis' detective novel, Night Train . "The novel draws its energies from the linguistic pyrotechnics of Nabokov and the human immensities of Bellow," says John Lanchester in The New Yorker , where Amis is regularly published.

  • Vladimir Nabokov reviews his own autobiography.


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