Example sentences for: slavic

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

  • The first record of Pest, meaning “lime furnace” or “ovens” in Slavic, comes from 1061.

  • Hearing the vernacular spoken on the modern streets of Sofia is like hearing a cross-section of this Slavic nation's tumultuous history.

  • But, as does the WP , the LAT also reports that Boris Yeltsin on Thursday warned the U.S. not to stage any airstrikes, and said that Russia would stand by its Slavic brethren.

  • Gone is the time when one might make a reasonably accurate guess at a person's race or nationality by his name; today, when blacks who do not adopt Arabic names or names like Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones might be named Kelly or Murphy, Jews born as Greenberg change their name to Monteverdi or Vermont, Hirsch to Cerf, and so forth, and people with Slavic and Italian names either change its spelling in an attempt to get people to pronounce it as closely as possible to the original (e.g.

  • Their mothers, who surrounded the field, terrified our mothers by abusing the referees in thick Slavic accents.


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