Example sentences for: russian

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

  • The Washington Post leads with a Russian rocket attack on Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, that killed more than 100 people--mostly civilians--and wounded several hundred more.

  • Noting that 66 percent of Russians support the war waged by "hawkish" Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the paper warned there are real signs Russia is breaking away "from the fickle embrace of western economic and political neo-liberalism."

  • Sharon has especially exploited Kosovo to court Israel's 1 million new Russian immigrants, whose votes are expected to decide the election's outcome.

  • Most critics find little resemblance between German director Wolfgang Petersen's "hokey" action flick and his near-classic Das Boot . Harrison Ford's turn as a U.S. president who goes mano a mano with Russian hijackers aboard his official plane is deemed a "14-year-old boy's fantasy of being president" (David Denby, New York ). Reflecting a general weariness with the summer's Hollywood fare, The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty writes, "Let's hope they don't get any sillier than this."

  • The Moscow summit received less enthusiastic press around the world, though the daily Novye Isvestiya said that although "Clinton did not have much space for maneuvering between support of Yeltsin and instructing potential Russian presidential candidates," everything that he did in Moscow was "correct."


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