babushka

Example Sentences

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In some villages, babushkas lay down in the roads blocking Ukrainian tanks, officers said, and in one, an especially cunning babushka kept stealing the soldiers’ helmets.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2022

The place was decorated with tchotchkes from the steppes and ceramic depictions of peasant life: grandmas in babushkas, farmers with sheep.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

We soon became the talk of the train, the carriage attendants sending updates to colleagues, and gleefully telling our story to the babushkas selling wares when we stopped at stations.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2017

A camera crew followed us; they were shooting a documentary about the babushkas of Chernobyl.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2013

And Zuppa Guy, who was usually really funny, and pretended to dance romantically with the babushkas so everyone would laugh together in all the languages, said, “This? This is American food.”

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri