babushka
Example Sentences
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The title character and occasional commentator, played as a gloomy babushka in a red headscarf by David Turner, foresees little hope for a glorious future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Oliver presents as all sunny, breezy love, sporting a trucker cap over a babushka over bleached pink hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
As a boy, I hand-made pelmeni with my babushka Alla, my hands and face covered in flour as we worked in the cold of my grandparents’ basement in Paterson, New Jersey.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
The award for the best-insulated delivery meal goes to the four-year-old Rohobot in Silver Spring, which bundles its vegetable combination like a babushka wraps a Russian baby: so completely, it’s hard to see what’s inside.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2021
She probably sees a kindly babushka doll when she looks at me, sitting in my hijab.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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