Example sentences for: sankt-

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

  • Sankt-Peterburg is awkward, is un-Slavic, un-Russian, grating.

  • Nothing laid bare the latent loathing of Communism, even at its best, in Russia so strikingly as the change by referendum from Leningrad to Sankt-Peterburg .

  • A Vienna-based cotton broker whom I met in Sankt-Peterburg in November, 1991, was negotiating with Uzbeks in Russian.

  • It has been said that some people born in Petrograd (as St. Petersburg was renamed with a Slavic calque in World War I) have lived out their lives in Leningrad and will die in Sankt-Peterburg.

  • Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.


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