Dostoevsky is an English word with synonyms like dostoyevsky or writer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dostoevsky in a sentence
Dostoevsky meaning
A transliteration of the Russian surname Достое́вский (Dostojévskij).
Synonyms of Dostoevsky
Using Dostoevsky
- The main meaning on this page is: A transliteration of the Russian surname Достое́вский (Dostojévskij).
- Useful related words include: dostoyevsky, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, feodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevski.
- In the example corpus, dostoevsky often appears in combinations such as: fyodor dostoevsky, dostoevsky novel, dostoevsky himself.
Context around Dostoevsky
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dostoevsky
- In this selection, "dostoevsky" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fyodor, cites, staging, himself, tolstoy and saw stand out and add context to how "dostoevsky" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include frequently cites dostoevsky as one and from a dostoevsky novel began. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dostoevsky" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dostoevsky
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
My favourite literary hero is Dostoevsky himself. (7 words)
Personal relations for Dostoevsky had always been dramatic. (8 words)
He frequently cites Dostoevsky as one of his favorite authors. (10 words)
Because I know that when I would go to a different church or have a visiting preacher that would say something — like, quote Dostoevsky or something — I’d be like, “Oh my God, this is so amazing,” because it would be something different. (43 words)
The Flying Karamazov Brothers, those clowning hoisters with stage names swiped from a Dostoevsky novel, began defying gravity and making funny in various configurations in the streets of Santa Cruz, California, in the early 1970s. (35 words)
In some ways St. Petersburg, still the epicenter of Russia’s two-headedness (its double-identity as European and Asian), remains permanently marked by the narrative imposed by Dostoevsky’s novel 150 years ago. (34 words)
Example sentences (13)
He frequently cites Dostoevsky as one of his favorite authors.
He also wrote about Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Vysotsky.
Perhaps artistic expression could serve as a catalyst for awareness as suggested by the contemplation of staging Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” at the local Steel River Playhouse.
Fyodor Dostoevsky saw the behavior of Russia's useless liberal class, which he satirized and excoriated at the end of the 19th century, as presaging a period of blood and terror.
I admired the drunkenness of the prose, the digressions and exaltation, the way Dostoevsky wrote as if each page would be his last.
Because I know that when I would go to a different church or have a visiting preacher that would say something — like, quote Dostoevsky or something — I’d be like, “Oh my God, this is so amazing,” because it would be something different.
In some ways St. Petersburg, still the epicenter of Russia’s two-headedness (its double-identity as European and Asian), remains permanently marked by the narrative imposed by Dostoevsky’s novel 150 years ago.
My favourite literary hero is Dostoevsky himself.
The Flying Karamazov Brothers, those clowning hoisters with stage names swiped from a Dostoevsky novel, began defying gravity and making funny in various configurations in the streets of Santa Cruz, California, in the early 1970s.
Fyodor Dostoevsky warned that without God, all bad things are possible.
Personal relations for Dostoevsky had always been dramatic.
Remembering the character of Sonya in Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novel Crime and Punishment (1866), she mused: "She had become a prostitute in order to support her little brothers and sisters.
The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (himself a problem gambler) portrays in his novella The Gambler the psychological implications of gambling and how gambling can affect gamblers.
Common combinations with dostoevsky
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: