Example sentences for: slavic

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

  • It seems that dæl - lower is from the Indo-European source of words like East Frisian del down, English dale , Old Church Slavic dolŭ down, dolinŭ lower.

  • Such paintings, along with the swirling Céret landscapes, struck collectors of the 1920s as "naive," just the sort of unschooled stuff you'd expect from a Slavic child of the shtetl . The critic Waldemar George wrote in 1928, "Is this not the art of an exile, or even a savage?"

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

  • 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.

  • The war against the Chechens, who are despised as Muslim terrorists in slavic Russia, is wildly popular, proof that Russian military power is returning.


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