Azov is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Azov meaning
- A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River.
- A village in Ukraine (de jure)
- A sea and gulf of the Black Sea, Europe; in full, the Sea of Azov.
Using Azov
- The main meaning on this page is: A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River. | A village in Ukraine (de jure) | A sea and gulf of the Black Sea, Europe; in full, the Sea of Azov.
- In the example corpus, azov often appears in combinations such as: of azov, the azov, azov sea.
Context around Azov
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Azov
- In this selection, "azov" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, five, battalion, sea and sitting stand out and add context to how "azov" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include sea of azov and allowed five azov battalion nazis. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "azov" sits close to words such as abdollahian, abergavenny and abounded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with azov
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The skull has now been delivered to the Azov Museum-Reserve for restoration. (13 words)
Last month, he visited the Russian-held port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov. (15 words)
In addition, despite a contractual agreement with Putin, Erdogan allowed five Azov Battalion Nazis free from their Turkish prison. (19 words)
On Friday morning, “the enemy struck cities and critical infrastructure facilities,” the air force said, adding that seven Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones were launched from the Sea of Azov and six Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea. (38 words)
Kyiv, which wants the bridge demolished and has targeted it with attacks, says Russia built it low to keep international ships out while allowing smaller Russian ones through the strait connecting the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. (38 words)
In its morning update, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian forces were evacuating local Russian passport-holders to the port city of Berdyansk and the town of Prymorsk, both on the coast of the Sea of Azov. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The best known is Azov Sitting, when Don and Zaporozhian Cossacks took over the Azov fortress and defended it with the aid of volunteers for 5 years against Turkish armed forces.
An exhibit at the Victory Museum titled “Everyday Nazism” includes artifacts from Ukraine’s Azov Battalion as evidence for the false assertion that Ukraine is committing “genocide” against Russians.
In addition, despite a contractual agreement with Putin, Erdogan allowed five Azov Battalion Nazis free from their Turkish prison.
In its morning update, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian forces were evacuating local Russian passport-holders to the port city of Berdyansk and the town of Prymorsk, both on the coast of the Sea of Azov.
Last month, he visited the Russian-held port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.
One force is driving toward Berdiansk, on the Sea of Azov, and the other toward Melitopol, near that sea.
On Friday morning, “the enemy struck cities and critical infrastructure facilities,” the air force said, adding that seven Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones were launched from the Sea of Azov and six Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea.
The Russian army also said Sunday it had downed two Ukrainian missiles over the Azov Sea that it said were headed for Russia.
They were urged instead to concentrate all their forces on the offensive directed south, toward Melitopol and the Azov Sea.
Two of the leading U.S. groups fighting antisemitism — the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the ADL — are also at loggerheads in their views of the Azov Brigade and the lionization of Bandera.
Ukraine, they figured, would want to advance south through Zaporizhzhia oblast towards the Sea of Azov, driving a wedge through Russian lines, splitting them in two and cutting off Crimea.
Kyiv, which wants the bridge demolished and has targeted it with attacks, says Russia built it low to keep international ships out while allowing smaller Russian ones through the strait connecting the Sea of Azov and Black Sea.
Soldiers of Ukraine’s Azov battalion light flares at a rally demanding to free Ukrainian prisoners of war who are held in captivity in Russia at Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday.
The city, which lies on the Sea of Azov in Ukraine’s southeast, saw some of the most intense and vicious fighting of the war.
The Ukrainian military intelligence agency said a special unit called Group 13 had fired Magura V5 maritime drones at the near the Kerch Strait, which connects the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea.
The Azov Battalion is a National Guard of Ukraine regiment that was set up in 2014, after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
The Azov movement’s early victories also earned it a reputation as a place where far-right extremists and self-confessed neo-Nazis could make themselves at home.
The skull has now been delivered to the Azov Museum-Reserve for restoration.
The tanker was used to block the naval group from passing through the Strait connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
The world remembered Ukraine when an incident at the passage into the Sea of Azov resulted in shots fired, a ramming and the detention of two Ukrainian patrol vessels.
Common combinations with azov
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of azov 15×
- the azov 11×
- azov sea 5×
- azov battalion 4×
- azov and 4×
- ukraine azov 2×
- azov in 2×