sputnik

Example Sentences

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With his trademark delivery - unhurried and calm - he informed viewers of the first sputnik in space, and delivered the communiqués of the Communist Party.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021

This guy's not as imposing as a sputnik, but just as many bulbs.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2021

All languages borrow words from other languages — Americans may recognize agitprop, sputnik, babushka or cosmonaut.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2017

It’s hard to remember, even for those who lived through it, what an enormous shock sputnik was.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2012

"Is it one of the space platforms or a sputnik?"

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen