Red Squarein a sentence
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He was charged with invading Soviet air space when he landed his Cessna in Red Square.
Red Square = famous city square in Moscow
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- She dips the brush in water and wets the paper, then taps at the red square.† (source)
- Below his head, folded into a perfect red square, was a piece of tattered old silk.† (source)
- In the late 1930s, Tverskaya Street had been widened to accommodate the official parades that ended in Red Square.† (source)
- Later, when the sun is up, its roof will be a perfect, strikingly red square against the dust because of the tomatoes his wife has set out to dry in the sun.† (source)
- With laughing hands, he placed a sliver of strawberry on each bright yellow and red square of toast—making the whole thing look like a lurid snack that an old woman might serve at a bridge party.† (source)
- A Log Cabin quilt is a thing every young woman should have before marriage, as it means the home; and there is always a red square at the centre, which means the hearth fire.† (source)
- One day I went to Red Square to see Lenin's preserved body, not because I was interested in him as a communist forefather or anything, but just like the other tourists I went out of curiosity.† (source)
- St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square during the height of the early evening's summer tourist onslaught.† (source)
- Against his chest gleamed a blood-red square.† (source)
- Thus, if by chance one cared to watch the battalions marching toward Red Square on the Seventh of November, one should go no further than room 322.† (source)
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- Second, he announced that on the seventh of November the annual commemoration of the Revolution would be celebrated on Red Square as usual.† (source)
- Alas, she and Boris had another experiment to perform—one that involved a bucket of water, a bicycle, and the perimeter of Red Square.† (source)
- At half past six on the twenty-first of June 1922, when Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square, it was glorious and cool.† (source)
- On Saturday, the twenty-first of June 1946, as the sun rose high over the Kremlin, a lone figure climbed slowly up the steps from the Moskva River embankment, continued past St. Basil's Cathedral, and made his way onto Red Square.† (source)
- I look at their shapes as they walk, the way shadow moves from one leg to another, the blocks of color, a red square of cardigan, a blue triangle of skirt.† (source)
- While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasili the Beatified and under the Borovitski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them.† (source)
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