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

When that segment airs, I will probably sit on the edge of my chair and wonder, ‘Is that it? Is that her samovar?’

From Washington Post • May 27, 2019

She awoke refreshed, and quite early, in time to get the very first cup of tea from the samovar in the common room.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood