babushka

Example Sentences

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The title character and occasional commentator, played as a gloomy babushka in a red headscarf by David Turner, foresees little hope for a glorious future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Oliver presents as all sunny, breezy love, sporting a trucker cap over a babushka over bleached pink hair.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

As a boy, I hand-made pelmeni with my babushka Alla, my hands and face covered in flour as we worked in the cold of my grandparents’ basement in Paterson, New Jersey.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023

Another gallery of street photography has an uptown/downtown feel, moving from two ladies in hats at the Hotel Pierre to a blanket-covered babushka on the Lower East Side.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2011

Otherwise, they looked like babushka nesting dolls with red and yellow scarves around sad faces.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri