gulag

Example Sentences

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As dark as the novel becomes, “the real darkness of the gulag there was so bleak that I had to cut it out,” the author has said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

They included 2003's I Am David, about a boy who escapes a gulag in Bulgaria, and the comedy Bringing Down the House, starring Steve Martin, from the same year.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

It gives the Surge plenty of time to pack our gulag go-bag and leave it by the front door.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2024

Ordering him to pay up is somehow or other equivalent to being killed in an arctic gulag.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2024

Gulo-mental: includes the region covered by the gulag and mentum.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.