Example sentences for: russian-

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

  • But under the Russian-Ottoman armistice a year later, Serbia was forced to withdraw.

  • As a once occasional translator of Russian, I am overpowered by an itch to comment on Emanuel Strauss”s review of Peter Mertvago's Comparative Russian-English Dictionary of Russian Proverbs & Sayings [XXIII,3].

  • In the 1970s, according to Time magazine, Soviet diplomats were issued with a Russian-English phrase-book that included such memorable phrases as this instruction to a waiter: “Please give me curds, sower cream, fried chicks, pulled bread and one jellyfish.”

  • Against the large number of Soviet dictionaries of only Russian proverbs, comparative and bilingual dictionaries, Russian-English ones were rarely published and they contained between 500 and a couple of thousand entries only.

  • In December 1999, while still in high school in Saudi Arabia, Hamlan became involved with a group that gathered periodically to watch jihad propaganda tapes, and was encouraged by a mentor named Bandar Marui to pursue jihad, especially as practiced in the Bosnia-Herzegovina and Russian-Afghan wars and a book titled Gladiator of Passion.


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