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

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

Then some costumes and props, probably a samovar.

From New York Times • May 4, 2018

Later, when all the food had been eaten and my mother had turned on the samovar, Ocean listened—attentively—as my parents tried to teach him how to speak Farsi.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi