How to Use Serb in a Sentence
Serb
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But the Serb sent the ball cannoning off the umpire’s seat instead.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
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The Serb has done it twice and is a Monte Carlo title away from doing it three times.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
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Serbs went after Muslims in the former Yugoslavia.
—Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
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Sinner then broke Djokovic for 1-0 in the third set when the Serb netted a forehand volley on break point.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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In his post-match interview, the Serb apologized while speaking with Annabel Croft on court.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
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On the pitch, players do not pass the ball to a fellow Muslim Bosniak, Orthodox Serb, or Catholic Croat.
—Arminka Helic, Time, 30 June 2026
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Sinner leads Djokovic 6-5, but the Serb beat the Italian in the Australian Open semis in January.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
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The Serb came off the bench against Parma on the opening weekend of the season to score a goal, only his second goal in the last six months, and secured all three points for The Old Lady.
—Emmet Gates, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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The Serb is 5-3 against Alcaraz, including wins in the Paris Olympics gold-medal match last summer and the Australian Open quarterfinals this year.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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When the ethnic war in Bosnia started in 1992, Mladic became the commander of the Bosnian Serb troops and took control of large swaths of the country to form a Serb mini-state.
—Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
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The same immigrant nerve and faith put a fisherman’s son in center field and put a Scotsman’s telephone and a Serb’s alternating current and a Russian Jew’s television into the bloodstream of the country.
—Anthony Scaramucci, Fortune, 28 June 2026
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The government of Republika Srpska, the Serb Republic, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, offered its assistance to Tuzla.
—CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
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But before his last-four clash with the Serb on Saturday, Alcaraz will swing more than his tennis racquet, facing compatriot and 2017 Masters champion, Sergio Garcia, in a golf face-off.
—Manasi Pathak, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Mladić became the Commander of the General Staff of the Army of the breakaway Serb Republic in Bosnia, which was backed and armed by the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
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Djokovic, who turns 39 Friday, remains the purest men’s grass-court player on the planet, Alcaraz apart, and the two-time champion’s absence from the All England Lawn Tennis Club this summer presents a golden opportunity for the Serb to achieve yet another tennis milestone.
—James Hansen, New York Times, 19 May 2026
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