How do you use Leningrad in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like peterburg or petrograd, plus the exact meaning.
Leningrad in a sentence
Leningrad meaning
- Former name of Saint Petersburg: a major city in Russia, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991.
- An oblast of Russia, which surrounds, but no longer contains, Saint Petersburg, its former administrative centre.
Synonyms of Leningrad
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Using Leningrad
- The main meaning on this page is: Former name of Saint Petersburg: a major city in Russia, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991. | An oblast of Russia, which surrounds, but no longer contains, Saint Petersburg, its former administrative centre.
- Useful related words include: st. petersburg, peterburg, petrograd, saint petersburg.
- Possible Dutch translations are: leningrad.
- In the example corpus, leningrad often appears in combinations such as: of leningrad, the leningrad, in leningrad.
Context around Leningrad
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Leningrad
- In this selection, "leningrad" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, defended, same, home, oblast, region and residents stand out and add context to how "leningrad" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 million leningrad residents perished and after the leningrad conservatory she. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "leningrad" sits close to words such as abington, acura and adt, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with leningrad
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Leningrad Lindsey's investigstion into the Bidens is separate from the trial of Donny. (14 words)
Last week, Kyiv's forces targeted a missile factorya gas plant in Putin's home Leningrad Oblast. (17 words)
The despot was a KGB officer in his hometown of Leningrad when he married flight attendant Lyudmila Ocheretnaya. (18 words)
Thursday’s attack on two fuel tankers of an oil facility at St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin’s hometown which is 500 miles from the border, was the first known attack in the Leningrad region since the war began. (38 words)
He's talking about kids from 11 to 14. Learning about the Seige of Leningrad freaked me out at 17- I don't think I would have been ready at 12. Maybe I'm not ready yet. (37 words)
As part of the comprehensive agenda, the delegation went to St. Petersburg, held a meeting with the city’s governor, Honorary Consul of the Republic of the Congo in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
A delegation led by the head of the Russia's Leningrad Oblast Committee on Transport Mikhail Prisiazhniuk visited MAZ to explore its vehicles and manufacturing facilities.
The first one is to intensify cooperation between Belarus and Leningrad Oblast in trade, economic, scientific and technical areas, the second - to intensify humanitarian cooperation.
As part of the comprehensive agenda, the delegation went to St. Petersburg, held a meeting with the city’s governor, Honorary Consul of the Republic of the Congo in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.
Estimates vary, but historians agree that more than 1 million Leningrad residents perished of hunger or in air and artillery bombardments.
He also stressed that Cuban patriots participated in the Great Patriotic War, fought on the front, and defended Leningrad in the most complex places.
Kyiv earlier this week claimed responsibility for two attacks on oil depots in Russia, including one in the same Leningrad region where Ust-Luga is located.
Last week, Kyiv's forces targeted a missile factorya gas plant in Putin's home Leningrad Oblast.
Personnel were evacuated,” Aleksandr Drozdenko, governor of Leningrad Oblast, posted on Telegram along with a short video showing a massive fire and smoke at a chemical complex.
The despot was a KGB officer in his hometown of Leningrad when he married flight attendant Lyudmila Ocheretnaya.
Thursday’s attack on two fuel tankers of an oil facility at St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin’s hometown which is 500 miles from the border, was the first known attack in the Leningrad region since the war began.
For my parents, the war meant the terrible ordeals of the Siege of Leningrad, where my two-year-old brother Vitya died.
Here's What You Need To Remember: The Red Army had liberated the southern Leningrad region and had finally broken the blockade of the city.
It claimed the facilities in Kola and Leningrad, the two nuclear plants in the highlighted region, were working normally.
While it dwarfed all other operations, it lacked a dramatic and popular focal point like Normandy, Stalingrad, or Leningrad––which have been written about more extensively.
After the Leningrad Conservatory, she marries Mikhail, an engineering student who insists on emigrating with their son, Grisha.
Even before the Tiger I debuted on the battlefield (floundering in the swamps near Leningrad in an ill-advised attack in September 1942), work had begun on a successor.
He's talking about kids from 11 to 14. Learning about the Seige of Leningrad freaked me out at 17- I don't think I would have been ready at 12. Maybe I'm not ready yet.
Israel plans to open a memorial in Jerusalem for the defenders of Leningrad during World War II, and Russia’s Putin plans to attend.
Leningrad Lindsey's investigstion into the Bidens is separate from the trial of Donny.
St. Petersburgh marks 75 years since Nazi siege of Leningrad (2 days ago) - More than a million people died of hunger, cold or disease or were killed during.
Common combinations with leningrad
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of leningrad 13×
- the leningrad 12×
- in leningrad 7×
- leningrad oblast 4×
- and leningrad 4×
- leningrad region 4×
- leningrad in 3×
- or leningrad 2×
- leningrad conservatory 2×
- near leningrad 2×