Example sentences for: stalingrad

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

  • This is especially interesting in view of recent place-name changes in Russia, whereby Tsaritsyn was changed to Stalingrad , then again to Volgograd . Likewise St. Petersburg became Petrograd and later Leningrad . Even in America, politics change, and people go in and out of favor.

  • Although he has been implicated in cutting California redwoods and in the collapse of a huge Texas S&L, Hurwitz was not involved in the siege of Stalingrad but probably wishes he had been.

  • He hates cynicism like the Russians at Stalingrad hated the snow.

  • Attacks were stepped up after the German defeat at Stalingrad in 1943, with Anglo-American “carpet-bombing.”

  • Five years later, the Taira were overthrown after being defeated in the straits between western Honshu and Kyushu, at the titanic sea battle of Dannoura — which has a place in Japanese annals comparable to Waterloo or Stalingrad.


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