Example sentences for: tsar

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

  • Conversely when cities like Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk or institutions like the Kirov Theater or streets like Gorky Street regained their original names, it was rather as if they had got back on track, as if they had been on a siding since, say, the tsar and his family were murdered at Ekaterinburg.

  • However, the boundaries of the tsar's empire, for centuries known as “Russia,” were approximately the same as those of the Soviet Union; it was occasionally known as “the Russias,” as in the formula “Tsar of all the Russias”; thus, this particular confusion comes naturally.

  • So as Ilyich's body was eternalized in embalming fluids (or duplicated in wax, as some skeptics believe) and displayed much like the relics of saints under an impressive mausoleum in Red Square against the Kremlin wall, the city created by the westernizing tsar and named for himself with a western, German name, Sankt-Peterburg , was renamed Leningrad.

  • For example, tsar, tsarina , etc., are discussed at czar , but there is no cross reference in the Ts for the tsar words and, if you didn't think (or know) to look under czar , you would think them missing.


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