samovar

Example Sentences

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One by one the participants approach a gigantic samovar, select a tea cup and fill it with hot water.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

Ivan Shabelnyk left home with a friend on March 23 to collect pine cones so the family could light the samovar and have tea.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022

Amid the musicians are suitcases, a samovar and other keepsakes from the lives of central characters Chaim and Chaya, who meet in Halifax and go on to have a rocky romance.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022

Home is the usual Russian affair—chaise longue: check; samovar: check—but the women’s clothes, and their language, are jarringly modern.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

The priest led him into a parlor heavy with tobacco smoke, where a cast-iron samovar steamed quietly on a side table.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman