Example sentences for: petersburg

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

  • This is especially interesting in view of recent place-name changes in Russia, whereby Tsaritsyn was changed to Stalingrad , then again to Volgograd . Likewise St. Petersburg became Petrograd and later Leningrad . Even in America, politics change, and people go in and out of favor.

  • A cautious note was struck in the St. Petersburg Times , which said that "Putin's future looks rosy, except as regards concrete policies, his main one so far being the razing of Grozny.

  • Today it is still very much complete, rivaled only in size and grandeur by Russia’s St. Petersburg.

  • The escalating violence in the Russian province of Dagestan--where late last week Islamic militants from across the Chechen border seized several villages and declared Dagestan an independent Islamic state--was described by the St. Petersburg Times as "the other crisis."

  • "Whilst we was in Petersburg, Marse Robert had done got him a little black hen from a man and we named the little black hen Nellie.


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