How to Use babushka in a Sentence

babushka

noun
  • Fishman isn’t the only one who has come to love the food of his babushka.
    — Deena Prichep, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • Now, Rocky is giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the process behind his signature babushka.
    — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
  • An old lady in a babushka greets him warmly and congratulates him on his great new gig as a bakery delivery man.
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 4 May 2020
  • The Ukrainian babushka waited for a departing train headed east.
    — NBC News, 2 May 2022
  • For those who don’t fish for keeps, or for those whose haul exceeds the limits of their bellies, an old, dumpling-faced Russian woman in a babushka takes up the slack.
    — Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The babushka-wearing elderly women sweeping the vast square early every morning used bunches of twigs tied to short broomsticks.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The look is finished off with a silk scarf tied around her head like a babushka, gigantic sunglasses, and a Dior tote with her name embroidered onto it.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Instead of hats, the Moscow crew favors silk babushka-like headscarves and, on sunny days, teeny-tiny sunglasses.
    — Style Du Monde, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Meredith Arwady unleashes her huge contralto as the comic babushka Amelfa.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Still unclear is why an apparently healthy teenaged girl ingested trimetazidine, a drug meant to treat angina that customarily would be used by a babushka with a bum ticker.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Russian concept store owner Olga Karput also kicked back in style, hanging out like a Vetements babushka with a head kerchief and floral gloves.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2018
  • In some villages, babushkas lay down in the roads blocking Ukrainian tanks, officers said, and in one, an especially cunning babushka kept stealing the soldiers’ helmets.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • In some villages, babushkas lay down in the roads blocking Ukrainian tanks, officers said, and in one, an especially cunning babushka kept stealing the soldiers’ helmets.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • In one image, a babushka boy rocks a dainty scarf to punctuate a clean white Polo shirt; in another, a show-goer wears a floor-sweeping scarlet dress resembling papal robes.
    — Stephen Tayo, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Liberals in the United States have always had good things to say about socialism, which is communism’s prettier younger sister who doesn’t wear a babushka or have a hairy mole on her cheek.
    — Christine Flowers, Philly.com, 13 July 2017
  • Wearing a scarlet knot of lipstick like a Matryoshka doll, with her hair frequently wrapped in a babushka scarf, her appearance — like her clothes — is a million miles from that of Rubchinskiy’s.
    — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Among the supporting cast, Lester is wonderfully grumpy and Harriet Walter, playing Bea’s wise babushka, great fun.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
  • All languages borrow words from other languages — Americans may recognize agitprop, sputnik, babushka or cosmonaut.
    — David Filipov, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'babushka.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: