babushka

How To Use babushka In A Sentence

• A babushka, very well dressed and apparently well off (these are the worst kind), decided that it was her duty to inform me that I shouldn't smoke.
• The blankets had fallen off Babushka Maya, who lay on the sofa covered by just her coat. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
• The movie opens with a scrupulously framed shot of the peasant woman Ermo, wrapped in her dull yellow babushka, hawking twisted noodles at the outskirts of an unnamed northern Chinese village.
• The NATO bombing also produced imagery that performs a phantasmatic imaginary, an epic Hollywood film where mighty men and high-tech bombing machines save Kosovar women in babushkas and elderly Albanians in wheelbarrows.
• This year the children dramatised the story of ‘Babushka and the Three Kings’.
• However, I found the perennial Russian babushkas, old ladies who usually chat on the benches, and they pointed out the library, which is small and unimposing.
• I visited one babushka's home to monitor the use of mobile ballot boxes.
• There is little for them to do apart from watch terns nesting on window sills, feed the 45-year-old bull on Russian hay, sell babushkas to tourists in the hope of US dollars and visit the (usually closed) museum.
• I even got permission from some little old ladies, babushkas and all, to have my picture taken with them.
• Directly across the car from me, next to an old woman with a gaudy cabbage rose print babushka over thinning white hair, is a young man I cannot take my eyes off of for long.