babushka

How To Use babushka In A Sentence

• Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well.
• She wears sunglasses and a babushka and smokes cigarettes through a long plastic filter that looks like a pipe stem.
• 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.
• They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style.
• This headcovering is often referred to as a babushka, named after the Russian word for ‘grandmother.’
• Kaliningrad is still garrisoned by a shadowy regiment of these babushkas, left over from a time when it was illegal not to work.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Although we adored staying with our dedushka and babushka, it was too near our own home for us to be comfortable.