Explore Tolstoy through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like writer or author. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tolstoy meaning
A transliteration of the Russian surname Толстой (Tolstoj).
Using Tolstoy
- The main meaning on this page is: A transliteration of the Russian surname Толстой (Tolstoj).
- Useful related words include: leo tolstoy, writer, author.
- In the example corpus, tolstoy often appears in combinations such as: leo tolstoy, tolstoy was, the tolstoy.
Context around Tolstoy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tolstoy
- In this selection, "tolstoy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, leo, stephan, feodor, told, 1782 and ever stand out and add context to how "tolstoy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about dostoevsky tolstoy nabokov solzhenitsyn and adaptation of tolstoy s work. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tolstoy" sits close to words such as accede, adhesion and adjudicate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tolstoy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He also wrote about Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Vysotsky. (10 words)
We believe he may be attempting to drive to the Tolstoy, SD area. (13 words)
Readers loved the generous storytelling, in the vein of Charles Dickens or Leo Tolstoy. (14 words)
Leo Tolstoy “would turn and turn and turn in his grave” if he knew, “but hopefully he can’t hear anything”, his great-grandson Stephan Tolstoy told AFP in an interview in Stockholm. (33 words)
This is not what is known as the “non-violent resistance to evil” according to Leo Tolstoy or Mahatma Gandhi, but just the elementary disregard of the West (the embodiment of evil). (32 words)
The countess's business 'Travel With Alexandra', which offers a 'Tolstoy tour' to Moscow and Polyana, cultural tour of Moscow and St Petersburg, and horse riding in Kyrgyzstan has been shut. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Leo Tolstoy “would turn and turn and turn in his grave” if he knew, “but hopefully he can’t hear anything”, his great-grandson Stephan Tolstoy told AFP in an interview in Stockholm.
Feodor Tolstoy's watercolour of his house in Moscow Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy (1782–1846) was a notorious drunkard, gastronome, and duellist.
Some saw it as a Tolstoy-like reconnection with land and soil, others a Nietzschean assertion of will and power.
This is not what is known as the “non-violent resistance to evil” according to Leo Tolstoy or Mahatma Gandhi, but just the elementary disregard of the West (the embodiment of evil).
As a reader who did go on to “War and Peace,” I can say confidently that Ms. Pascal understood my desires more than Tolstoy ever did.
He also wrote about Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Vysotsky.
We believe he may be attempting to drive to the Tolstoy, SD area.
With or without Tolstoy’s wisdom, most couples know that extended visits from their in-laws reveal new edges to old dynamics between parents and children.
Many of the show’s lyrics are taken directly from Tolstoy’s novel with near word for word translation.
Peter Kropotkin, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi realized that culture trumps economics and politics.
The countess's business 'Travel With Alexandra', which offers a 'Tolstoy tour' to Moscow and Polyana, cultural tour of Moscow and St Petersburg, and horse riding in Kyrgyzstan has been shut.
Tolstoy tells us that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and here is a compelling anatomy of one family’s unique implosion.
Gyllenhaal says reading the Tolstoy classic was a labor of love, one she worked on throughout the winter.
It’s an awful thing that Russian writers don’t generally live much beyond 50, with the obvious exception of Tolstoy.
It turns out it wasn’t Leo Tolstoy’s seminal work War and Peace that the Bombay High Court was referring to during the trial of human rights activist Vernon Gonsalves.
Readers loved the generous storytelling, in the vein of Charles Dickens or Leo Tolstoy.
Better to recall Tolstoy’s maxim that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Choreographed by American choreographer John Neumeier, who first premiered this version with Germany’s Hamburg Ballet in 2017, the ballet is a loose adaptation of Tolstoy’s work.
He also founded the Phoenix and Tolstoy Farms, from where the demand for peace and justice echoed to the whole world.
Her passions led her to the works of Leo Tolstoy and South African writer J.M. Coetzee.
Common combinations with tolstoy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- leo tolstoy 15×
- tolstoy was 3×
- the tolstoy 3×
- tolstoy and 3×
- of tolstoy 3×
- from tolstoy 2×
- nikolayevich tolstoy 2×
- tolstoy to 2×
- tolstoy in 2×
- tolstoy farm 2×