How to Use Bolshevik in a Sentence

Bolshevik

noun
  • The strange holdover from the era of Bolshevik iconography.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 2021-04-11
  • Ruth also gave up writing, but became more of a bohemian—and more of a Bolshevik.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 2025-03-17
  • This would not be the first time the Pets have gone Bolshevik and made unacceptable political challenges.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2024-09-18
  • In 1917, after years of living in exile, Bolshevik leaders returned home.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 2024-09-18
  • His likeness appeared on enormous posters, friezes and parade banners, presenting him as the embodiment of Bolshevik ideals.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Imbrie’s work placed him in such peril that unsubstantiated rumors of Bolshevik involvement in his death persisted for years.
    — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-09-05
  • Yet the seizure of the means of production — not in the Bolshevik but in the Robber Baron sense — has been the default mode for motion picture makers since the birth of the medium.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 2022-02-07
  • The link between epochs, ripped apart by bloody Bolshevik hands, had been miraculously, unexpectedly put back together as the last possible moment was ebbing away.
    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WSJ, 2020-10-01
  • The reference to government texts replacing the Bible was, undoubtedly, a way of reinforcing the idea that, as some argued, the Amendment was a Bolshevik scheme.
    — Janet Golden / Made By History, TIME, 2024-05-23
  • Beginning in 1929, and following the Bolshevik revolution, the icon has been housed at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 2023-05-16
  • In Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution had been preceded by two smaller revolutions.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The episode in question opens with a flashback in which the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, are executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 2022-11-07
  • The hotel’s assistant manager, a cockney turned Bolshevik named Jack Margolis, explained to one journalist that the dining room was closed to keep the guests safe in the event of a direct hit on the famous glass ceiling.
    — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 2023-07-05
  • If such a figure had actually existed, the Russian Revolution may have gone very differently, to the chagrin of Romanov and Bolshevik alike.
    — Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 2024-11-25
  • Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left the country since 2022, the largest exodus since the Bolshevik Revolution, further straining the country’s labor force.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 2025-03-11
  • White Russians, the fiercely anti-communist aristocrats and generals who battled the Bolshevik Reds for more than five years starting in 1917 and then mostly fled into exile, were rehabilitated in official histories as patriots.
    — Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-06-24

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