How To Use Babushka In A Sentence
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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.
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The blankets had fallen off Babushka Maya, who lay on the sofa covered by just her coat.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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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.
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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.
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This year the children dramatised the story of ‘Babushka and the Three Kings’.
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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.
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I visited one babushka's home to monitor the use of mobile ballot boxes.
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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.
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I even got permission from some little old ladies, babushkas and all, to have my picture taken with them.
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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.
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Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively.
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The children continued their swimming exercises in the pond, and the babushkas proceeded with their grave and slow discussions about their grandchildren, prices, and pensions.
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The only thing more Russian than bortsch and babushkas is - uh, rock 'n' roll?
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Women may wear peasant babushkas on their heads, and men may wear hats with floppy brims.
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Thus, as at all occasions in our family, happy or sad, Olga, Mrs Turner, Babushka and Nadeja congregated, in between the requiems, to arrange every minor detail of the funeral.
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Now ladies, I'm not saying we should all follow our bubbies and throw on a babushka - I'm just saying, sometimes a little cover up goes a long way.
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At other times he acts like a bold market reformer, risking the ire of babushkas from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok by cutting popular communist-era benefits such as free transportation and medicine for retirees and veterans.
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Headscarves, kerchiefs, but not babushkas are definitely in.
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The platform on which the Yanobe figure stood was rimmed with photos of the artist posing in Chernobyl with children, older women in babushkas, or in a church or an abandoned house.
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I'm never met a non-sexy Russian woman. And this blond babushka is no exception.
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Top hats, bowlers and gem-encrusted crowns are all considered ‘clean’, while babushkas, fedoras and coon-skin hats are all regarded as ‘filthy’.
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Women may wear peasant babushkas on their heads, and men may wear hats with floppy brims.
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She wears sunglasses and a babushka and smokes cigarettes through a long plastic filter that looks like a pipe stem.
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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.
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They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style.
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This headcovering is often referred to as a babushka, named after the Russian word for ‘grandmother.’
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Kaliningrad is still garrisoned by a shadowy regiment of these babushkas, left over from a time when it was illegal not to work.
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At the same time though I feel like telling them, this idea is not far wrong, the only difference being that all the bears are dead and draped over the shoulders of big boisterous Russian babushkas.
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In 1989, I walked into a church near Boris Pasternak's dacha and heard priests and babushkas reciting the litany with perfect recall as if seventy-two years of repression had never happened.
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At our hotel, the Park Hyatt, syrniki arrived at the table studded with raisins and thick with cheese that retained its natural, curdy consistency, while at Vogue Café they were raisin-less, whipped and smoothed into delicate discs few Russian babushkas would recognize.
Beyond Blini
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Although we adored staying with our dedushka and babushka, it was too near our own home for us to be comfortable.
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Grumans serves all the Old World deli favourites, but out of loyalty I have to say that, while the food was great, it was only almost as good as my babushka's cooking.
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Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well.
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Same babushka collocation is very appropriate, nevertheless, cowboy hat and jerkin, deduce mix the amorous feelings that build likewise wonderful.
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What makes these protests potentially more powerful than those of 1998 is that so many Russian families have a pensioner - often a beloved babushka caring for the grandchildren.
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My babushka was called Ceceila, an unusual name in Russia.
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This said, they turn their backs on the bewildered babushka and ride off.
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The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects.
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Standing behind them was Ivan, Andrei and Alexis and at the front, sitting in front of father and Nadeja was Natalia and I, both dressed in our best white muslin dresses that our babushka had bought us.
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Her hair captured under a babushka, face a stone with little intelligent eyes.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy.
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Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas?