samovar

Example Sentences

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One by one the participants approach a gigantic samovar, select a tea cup and fill it with hot water.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

Ivan Shabelnyk left home with a friend on March 23 to collect pine cones so the family could light the samovar and have tea.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022

There will be no samovar, there will be no parasols.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2021

Home is the usual Russian affair—chaise longue: check; samovar: check—but the women’s clothes, and their language, are jarringly modern.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

I dream that lawla flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul again and rubab music will play in the samovar houses and kites will fly in the skies.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini