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

“I found myself sitting on the edge of my chair watching actual appraisals, as well as people wandering in the background, thinking, ‘Is that my grandmother’s samovar?

From Washington Post • May 27, 2019

At her mother’s words she began to moan, soft and high-pitched, but it sounded just like the singing of the samovar, and no one paid her any mind.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood