How to Use dacha in a Sentence

dacha

noun

• The invasion was launched, and Stalin soon retreated to his dacha in shock.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Those who are not already on holiday flock to their dachas in the countryside.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Meanwhile, the home of one of his chief enemies has been raided by police, and her dacha, a country house, was burned down.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2019
• For example, in Gooseberries, two men come upon a dacha (a cottage) in the woods.
  — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• Luna was terrified of jaguars wandering around her family’s dacha in the German woods; the car that hits Saul in 2016 is a Jaguar.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• New cars and a dacha Evidently Rogozin's job has other perks.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• On occasion, Beria would have drinks at Stalin’s dacha.
  — Jonathan W. Jordan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• As Stalin’s body lies stiffening at his dacha in the country, the members of the Central Committee strike alliances and counter-alliances and counter-counter-alliances.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• So members of the Central Committee used to have their own buildings, their own dachas behind tall fences, their own sanatoriums.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 11 Oct. 2017
• The folksy exterior of Yves Saint Laurent’s dacha belies the opulence found inside.
  — Tim Gavan, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
• The elder Shamalov helped co-found the Ozero cooperative, an elite dacha community that includes Putin as a member.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
• After the dictator collapsed in the bedroom of his dacha, urinating all over himself, hours passed before anyone checked on him, because his guards were afraid to intrude on his privacy.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 15 Mar. 2018
• Mr. Gorbachev travels little now, dividing his time between his office and a dacha outside Moscow.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• Those who still go to work can get a special unlimited pass, but for personal matters -- such as driving to a store or a dacha (a country house) -- residents can only get two passes a week, each valid for one day.
  — Mary Ilyushina, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
• Something for Senator Sanders to contemplate in his waterfront dacha.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 June 2019
• Now various elements of her life come together at the general’s summer dacha.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• This puts him on the same level as Jared Kushner, who sits in on similar briefings without a clearance that has been denied him because of mounting evidence that Kushner has been panhandling the finer dachas for years now.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• Accompanying their husbands, the ladies attended a dinner table conference at Khrushchev’s dacha, or country house.
  — Djurdja Bartlett, Smithsonian, 4 June 2019

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024