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

• Russia’s view of itself as a great empire is not a Soviet thing.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 2023-11-11
• In the end, no Soviet cosmonauts ever flew around the Moon.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2023-11-10
• Then a Soviet skater and a Norwegian skater tied Grishin for the gold with the exact same times.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2023-06-09
• 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, 2024-01-04
• The discussions were about Ukraine, which is a former Soviet republic.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 18 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 dictator, the Man of Steel, was the type of tyrant that Trump chillingly admires.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2025-05-09
• Read more Just for subscribers: The rise and fall of a Soviet surgeon who came to America, made millions — and lost it all.
  — USA TODAY, 2023-06-02
• The Vibe The Telegraph embraces its Soviet bones and mid-century timestamp.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• 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, 2023-08-22
• The disaster was ultimately a consequence of a quirky type of reactor and Soviet corruption.
  — Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
• Stalin made the Black Sea Fleet a core element of Soviet military strategy.
  — Galip Dalay, Time, 19 Aug. 2025
• His parents had fled their homeland and arrived in the U.S. as refugees following the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan in the mid- to late 1980s.
  — Olivia Petty, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2025-07-16
• The physical location of the base was built in the 1940s as an air defense site and central command point that played a major role in thwarting Soviet enemies.
  — Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
• If someone had uncovered it, not only the participants but also the entire Soviet network in North America would have been in danger.
  — Jeff Kisseloff, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• Russia itself test launched its first post-Soviet era rocket model, the Angara-A5, in June last year, following two aborted launch attempts.
  — Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
• Soviet economic weakness led to eventual collapse; Russia’s economy remains weak.
  — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• After Soviet dictator Stalin died in 1953, the new leadership wanted to ease relations with the West.
  — John Seiler, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025
• The area was largely populated by Armenians during the Soviet era but is located within Azerbaijan.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
• Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev later sent one of Strelka’s puppies to First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• The Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk - collectively known as the Donbas - were an industrial powerhouse in the Soviet era, a place of coal mines and steel mills.
  — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
• So, to throw some light on things, President Eisenhower authorized the development of a new long-distance, high-altitude spy plane that could be loaded up with cameras and flown over Soviet territory.
  — David Szondy august 10, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
• The opening segment in which a key Soviet figure gets assassinated is one the highlights in an uneven mix of dirty spy games tied to a shadowy American spy organization called Caddis and family dysfunction of two broods.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
• The killings left historical eastern Poland so depopulated of Poles that the Soviet government deported the remainder and shifted Poland and Ukraine’s borders westward.
  — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
• Ultimately, Putin does not appear to have yet changed his war calculus, and experts highlighted that there are some significant differences between Putin and his Soviet predecessor, Gorbachev, that make this upcoming talk vastly different.
  — Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• Demographers say Kazakhstan's earlier rebound in the 2000s and 2010s reflected recovery from the economic turmoil of the post-Soviet era, rather than a permanent shift toward larger families.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
• Since the 1970s, millions of people have fled Afghanistan for Iran and Pakistan, especially during the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.
  — Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
• While Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov’s theory, known as K41 scaling, is widely accepted to describe how energy dissipates in turbulent flows, proving its relevance in bubbly systems has remained a scientific challenge.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
• In this case, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania affected not just Soviet policy but that of the European Union and NATO as well.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 11 Aug. 2025
• In 2014, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Australian Security Intelligence Organization had surveilled Stratton in the 1960s for screening Soviet films in the festival.
  — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025