Example sentences for: sergei

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

  • Veteran Soviet-era director Sergei Bodrov transposes a Tolstoy short story about Russian soldiers held by Muslim foes to present-day Chechnya.

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.

  • Vladimir Mayakovsky was out to reinvent poetry, Vsevelod Meyerhold theater, Vladimir Tatlin the monument, Dziga Vertov cinema, Viktor Shklovsky and Sergei Tretiakov prose literature, while Rodchenko's domain comprised advertising, illustration, graphic design, stage design, photography, and a few other things besides.

  • The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lead with dire economic assessments from President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, while the Washington Post takes on Russia wannabe Belarus.

  • Masterminded by Sergei Korolev, the Soviet counterpart to the United States' Wernher von Braun (and, unlike von Braun, a native product), Sputnik seemed to represent a system superior to capitalism, and proved useful in wooing developing nations that had yet to choose sides in the Cold War.


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