How to Use dacha in a Sentence

dacha

noun
  • But there are quite a few takers, most of whom are thinking of building a dacha, or country house.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Those who are not already on holiday flock to their dachas in the countryside.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • The invasion was launched, and Stalin soon retreated to his dacha in shock.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the home of one of his chief enemies has been raided by police, and her dacha, a country house, was burned down.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2019
  • For example, in Gooseberries, two men come upon a dacha (a cottage) in the woods.
    — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Now various elements of her life come together at the general’s summer dacha.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • So members of the Central Committee used to have their own buildings, their own dachas behind tall fences, their own sanatoriums.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Something for Senator Sanders to contemplate in his waterfront dacha.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • The folksy exterior of Yves Saint Laurent’s dacha belies the opulence found inside.
    — Tim Gavan, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
  • After the dictator collapsed in the bedroom of his dacha, urinating all over himself, hours passed before anyone checked on him, because his guards were afraid to intrude on his privacy.
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Accompanying their husbands, the ladies attended a dinner table conference at Khrushchev’s dacha, or country house.
    — Djurdja Bartlett, Smithsonian, 4 June 2019
  • Those who still go to work can get a special unlimited pass, but for personal matters -- such as driving to a store or a dacha (a country house) -- residents can only get two passes a week, each valid for one day.
    — Mary Ilyushina, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The elder Shamalov helped co-found the Ozero cooperative, an elite dacha community that includes Putin as a member.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Luna was terrified of jaguars wandering around her family’s dacha in the German woods; the car that hits Saul in 2016 is a Jaguar.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Nearby, Antonina, who learned all about gardening from her grandmother at the family dacha long ago, is showing her preschool son Daniel how to remove weeds from his little box.
    — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
  • As Stalin’s body lies stiffening at his dacha in the country, the members of the Central Committee strike alliances and counter-alliances and counter-counter-alliances.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • This puts him on the same level as Jared Kushner, who sits in on similar briefings without a clearance that has been denied him because of mounting evidence that Kushner has been panhandling the finer dachas for years now.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018

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