How to Use troika in a Sentence

troika

noun

• A troika of countries signed the agreement.
• After the troika at the top, the player with the highest odds of winning this event?
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 July 2019
• In the seventh, as the Rangers took the lead, the Semien-García-Seager troika each had singles in a two-run rally.
  — Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2022
• What used to be a tango between the doctor and patient is now a troika.
  — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 31 Oct. 2019
• Chekhov nearly perished in a collision with a mail troika and might have drowned in a flood.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2020
• If only one of Philly’s troika reaches superstardom, the 76ers will have a long way to go to catch the Warriors.
  — SI.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• But the new Trump-Bolton-Pompeo troika seems committed to Iraq-like fantasies that war can solve all.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Inside, a troika of priests in marigold-colored mantles intoned prayers in a deep baritone.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Spike Lee took smartphone pics of the troika as the professionals’ cameras stuttered and flashed.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
• Now, plug in Pittsburgh's troika of skill-position threats.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The troika chose the Hall of Heroes for their venue—a room that showcases the Medal of Honor, our country’s highest award for valor in combat.
  — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 28 Jan. 2017
• But most of his tenure was marked by unified public consensus among the troika.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• Everyone wants to lay hands on Stasi files — the KGB has sent a troika of thugs to exercise their own methods of securing them.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• Early in his Senate career Mr. Lee came to be known as one third of a conservative troika—with Sens.
  — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 3 July 2018
• The foundation, which would wind up spending $1 billion over the next 40 years on the project, ordered the two groups to merge, with a troika of two experimentalists, Drs.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• The set list drew from Isbell’s impressive troika of recent albums.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
• The punishing Scherzer-Strasburg-Corbin troika always gave them a chance.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2019
• Now, the North American troika has eight years to deliver on what stands to be the most ambitious World Cup in the tournament’s 96-year history.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 June 2018
• The justices have not heard a direct challenge to Roe since a troika of moderates saved its central holdings in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 May 2021
• Sale missed two full seasons because of Tommy John surgery on his left elbow and was allowed to return to the bigs against a troika of cupcakes (Hostess sells them only in pairs).
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• China has joined a geographic troika trying to get around the US block by issuing their own statement.
  — Richard Roth, CNN, 18 May 2021
• Instead, a troika of justices carved out a new undue-burden standard to replace Roe’s troubled trimester framework.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• If Doncic plays, Dallas would boast a troika with an even higher combined average (60.0).
  — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2022
• Those who don’t buy the lone-gunman theory believe someone on the grassy knoll worked as a second sniper, that the Soviets or Cubans or unions — maybe the troika working in concert, even — were behind at least some of the plot.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Apr. 2021
• That compares with a plus 9.5 per 48 minutes for the troika of Butler, Adebayo and Highsmith – a group that started together for a time earlier this season.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
• Which brings us to the larger question: How successful is the Goldman troika at influencing the president?
  — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 27 June 2017
• But within weeks, the troika had landed at Credit Suisse First Boston and promptly convinced their entire former team to follow them.
  — Adam Lashinsky, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2001
• The lack of trust among the troika members wound up leaving them joined at the hip, reluctant to let each other meet privately with Reagan for fear that the others might use facetime with the president to their advantage.
  — Tevi Troy, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2021
• There was reported infighting throughout the season that seemed to threaten the power troika atop New England’s dynasty.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Now, on the precipice of what may become the biggest auto strike in years, that green troika is threatening to split apart, imperiling the future of the President’s climate agenda, and his reelection chances.
  — Time, 14 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024