How to Use Slavic in a Sentence

Slavic

1 of 2 noun

• With her dark eye shadow and severe bangs, Denisova resembles a Slavic Chrissie Hynde.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• Lately, two groups – Slavic Nation Empire and Scamquerteo – have been behind some of these attacks.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2024
• Grace Slavic Church found a temporary home for services Sunday, after a devastating fire just days before.
  — Jason Rantala, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
• Molly Brunson is an associate professor in Slavic languages and literature at Yale who also teaches the history of art at the university.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2025
• He was inspired by folkloric characters from history, like the Slavic Baba Yaga and the Italian Befana, as well as Victorian lady silhouettes, 17th century panniers, puffed sleeves, and harem pants.
  — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025

Slavic

2 of 2 adjective

• Russian and many other Slavic languages got their word for winter, zima, from the same root.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2023
• Gołabki is like a larger version of dolma, but with a Slavic spin, featuring ground pork.
  — Nikki O'Neill, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• One example is the early vampires from Balkan and Slavic lore very often didn't drink blood.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2024
• There also were hundreds of pages written in Cyrillic, a centuries-old script still used in Slavic countries.
  — Claudia Lauer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
• Nearby were large canvases covered with oversize Slavic calligraphy and her words of devotion about punk and protest.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2025
• The sweet-cheese croquettes with dulce de leche mousse and berry sauce are reminiscent of a beloved Slavic dish called syrniki and are a nod to two of the owners’ Ukrainian roots.
  — Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
• The cherished Russian folk festival has its origins in an ancient Slavic holiday marking the end of winter and spring's arrival.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
• Some believe that the name originated with Slavic soldiers who once attempted to march over the trackless range into Albania.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
• But the Russian-speaking nightclub background actors lapped up Aleksei's Slavic shellacking.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
• Intertwined with pan-Slavism and the dream of a Slavic empire, these notions fed a new nationalist imperialism.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Once part of a Slavic kingdom, Slovenia was later conquered by the Franks, and for 500 years it was ruled by the Hapsburg family.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
• Kyiv — Russian soldiers call the practice a sacrifice to Baba Yaga, a fearsome witch from Slavic folklore who feasts on her victims.
  — Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
• His Russian is especially popular, which the actor pulled off to play a convincingly Slavic Ilya Rozanov in the hit series.
  — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
• The Balkan Mountains rise with stoic grace—sheltering cliffside monasteries like Rila, winding shepherd trails, and forests steeped in Slavic myth.
  — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• Besides the Celtic burial ground, the team also discovered a number of medieval Slavic graves containing skeletal remains from the 9th and 10th centuries.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
• Dotted with small towns, its sprawling countryside is home to rural communities, conservative faith groups and a sizable Slavic immigrant population.
  — Maria Godoy, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026
• Archaeology was tasked with the promotion of cultural unity among the communist nations, leading to an explosion of studies into Slavic heritage.
  — Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
• Although German is now the primary language, some older residents still speak Sorbian, a Western Slavic language, and a few schools continue to teach it.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 21 Feb. 2026
• Dostoyevsky saw Russia’s colonization of neighboring Slavic lands as akin to a brother’s warm embrace and took the Polish fight for independence as a family betrayal.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• One of the most accomplished dystopian authors of her generation, Roth delivers a new twist on the Slavic legend of Baba Jaga, crafting an enchanting world full of monsters, knights, and witches.
  — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2023
• Mucha devoted much of his later work to celebrating Czech and Slavic identity after achieving international recognition as a leading figure of Art Nouveau.
  — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• During the first decades of communism, the government emphasized Bulgaria’s Slavic ethnic background to blend its citizens with other nations under Soviet domination.
  — Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
• Russia’s autocratic president spent the first hour dragging his interlocutor along a languid tour of Russia’s history, beginning at the first East Slavic state in 862 and continuing into the modern era, with many detours along the way.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024