How to Use Ukrainian in a Sentence

Ukrainian

noun
  • His hope was that their army would run out of men before the Ukrainian one did.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 2024-10-12
  • Adding a romantic line in Ukrainian, Yara made a vow to her husband.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2023-10-31
  • She was described as a shy homebody and speaking only Ukrainian.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 2025-04-08
  • The very identity Ukrainian, in his opinion, should no longer exist.
    — Foreign Affairs, 2023-11-10
  • At the end of the scene, the Russian and the Ukrainian take turns humping each other from behind.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 2024-01-04
  • Newsweek has reached out by email to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry for comment.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2024-11-05
  • The Russian/Ukrainian War – Putin’s War —would be over.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 21 Aug. 2025
  • As high-tech as this war is, Honza and the others with us can’t tell if its Ukrainian or Russian.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 2023-05-13
  • Last month, a Ukrainian sea drone shot down a Russian warplane — the first time this type of attack has been recorded.
    — Greg Myre, NPR, 2025-06-07
  • Pegula, who entered with a 2-0 record against the Ukrainian, built a 5-1 first set lead.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2024-03-03
  • Bohdana Teslenko is another Ukrainian left with just memories of a loved one.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Recipes from a Ukrainian Kitchen scribe Anna Voloshyna have both showed up to taste recipes out of their own books.
    — Andrew Zucker, Glamour, 2024-12-26
  • Quotas in film, TV, and radio also increased the use of Ukrainian.
    — Lydia Tomkiw, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-12-04
  • In another room on the same floor, Darya, a Ukrainian surrogate, had just given birth to her daughter.
    — Lili Rutai, The Dial, 2025-01-07
  • Russian soldiers are locked in a fierce battle to reclaim all of the Kursk region from the Ukrainian Army.
    — Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 2025-02-12
  • It will be shot primarily in English with some Ukrainian and Polish.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 2024-11-26
  • The Ukrainian Health Ministry did not respond to questions about how many Ukrainians have been dismembered.
    — Michael Collins, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Other plaintiffs are members of the Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches.
    — Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 2025-01-17
  • Meanwhile, Bondar and her family, who still live in Ukraine, switched from speaking Russian to Ukrainian.
    — Alex Haddon, The Indianapolis Star, 2024-06-21
  • After 500 years, speeches and songs in Ukrainian once again refer to Bakhmut as a fortress—a place whose function is to stop the enemy and to protect.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 2023-09-27
  • This is especially vexing on the southern front in Zaporizhzhia province, where a Ukrainian break through the Russian lines would mark a definitive swing in the arc of the war.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2023-07-18
  • Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with two ballistic missiles and 97 drones, the Ukrainian Air Force said Friday morning.
    — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Six miles south, on the southern Zaporizhzhia front, the Ukrainian Army has punched a hole in the formidable defenses Russia has built along the six-hundred-mile frontline.
    — Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 2023-09-13
  • The THeMIS was the first unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) in its class to be deployed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the war against Russia.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Konovaliuk and hundreds of other Ukrainian Americans recently celebrated the 34th anniversary of their ancestral nation’s independence with a march and rally in downtown Chicago.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Troops in Russia Ukrainian and US intelligence suggests there are roughly 12,000 North Korean troops in Russia, the first of whom were sent in the fall of 2024.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The most recent strike included 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles overnight, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, mostly targeting western regions of Ukraine where much of military aid from Western allies is believed to be delivered and stored.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The meeting with Vance included Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, as well as Lammy.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Olena Orliuk, Director of the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations.
    — Olena Orliuk, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Compiled by Michael Holtz and translated from the Ukrainian by Svitlana Bregman, Andriy Masliukh, Mykhailo Tarapatov, Vitalii Pavliuk, Henyk Beliakov, Tetyana Fedorchuk, and Yuliia Kulish.
    — Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

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