How to Use soviet in a Sentence

soviet

1 of 2 noun
  • The plan was opposed by the Soviets.
  • Even the Soviets couldn’t control the urge for a flutter.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At the same time, their counterblockade of East Germany was beginning to bite the Soviets.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
  • American successes and failures played out in front of the world, while the Soviets often celebrated their triumphs and concealed their setbacks.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 May 2026
  • Few, if any, gave them a chance against the all-conquering Soviets, especially given the fact the American team had been humbled 10-3 in an exhibition game at Madison Square Garden just days before the Games started.
    — Patrick Snell, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The Russians brought trinkets and Matryoshka dolls to sell, with Orsini telling author Martyn Thomas in his book World in Their Hands that her mother, a journalist, had taken an interest in the Soviets’ story.
    — Peter Carline, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025

Soviet

2 of 2 adjective
  • The ethos of his rule since then has been a kind of Soviet revivalism.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Russia’s view of itself as a great empire is not a Soviet thing.
    — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Some lieutenant colonel from troop services with a mustache came by in an old Soviet car to welcome them.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The two women were both older mothers who grew up during Soviet times.
    — Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Five years was serious business, the length of world wars and Soviet economic plans.
    — Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
  • The book traces the evolution of his attitudes toward the Soviet past.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Soviet economy flourished, only to stagnate as the decade wore on.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Shell is in between a castle and a factory and a war bunker and a brutalist playground and a Soviet bus stop.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 2 June 2025
  • The country still uses a lot of Soviet emblems and iconography.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Then a Soviet skater and a Norwegian skater tied Grishin for the gold with the exact same times.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
  • The Ukrainians that day could use their 155mm rounds while saving their Soviet calibers.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • First in a very practical sense, because a lot of the stuff that Soviet dissidents write about—they’re exactly the same now.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Then in the 20th century, of course, the country suffered years of Nazi and Soviet rule.
    — Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • One of Putin’s first acts in office was to change the melody of the Russian national anthem back to the Soviet one.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • To their free-marketeer eyes, the Global Plan was too close to Soviet planning for comfort.
    — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The discussions were about Ukraine, which is a former Soviet republic.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Gorbachev came to power after years of attempts by Reagan to meet with his Soviet counterparts.
    — Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Going back to the Soviet era, these schools have produced generations of engineers who are trained to work in secrecy.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The Soviet space program would soon astonish the world by lofting the first satellite, and then the first human being, into orbit.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 31 July 2025
  • A far cry from a Seder, or any real Passover ritual, but at least something Soviet Jews could savor in private.
    — Olga & Igor Alterman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Ronald Reagan never invited a Soviet tyrant into a limousine.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • In any event, Putin has a thirst for empire, Sharansky explains, as Russian and Soviet leaders past have had.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
  • The Vibe The Telegraph embraces its Soviet bones and mid-century timestamp.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • As a former Soviet republic, Latvia has highlighted the threat posed by Moscow after the war in Ukraine.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The Soviet Sputnik 5 carried mutts Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and two rats.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In the 1920s, the Soviet government began to drain the sea for irrigation of cotton and other cash crops.
    — Victoria Milko, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This will be the first all-female crew in space since 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went to space alone.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Puyi gave the timepiece to his Russian interpreter, Georgy Permyakov, as a parting gift on his last day in a Soviet prison camp, per the auction house.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • The first Soviet and American soft landings on the moon happened all the way back in the 1960s, at the dawn of the Space Race.
    — Popular Science, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In peacetime, the ships would have escorted convoys from the United States to Europe through a gauntlet of Soviet submarines.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023

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