Editorial »

How to use the word Donbas in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

30 results found

I hope that those responsible for the decision to use this facility will be reprimanded, there are enough abandoned facilities in Donbas with sturdy buildings and basements where personnel can be quartered.

– Daniil Bezsonov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The more difficult it is for the occupiers, the more losses they have, the better the positions for our defenders in Donbas will be, the more reliable the defense of Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and the cities of Dnipropetrovsk region will be, the faster we will be able to liberate the Azov region and the entire south.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am asking now all our people in Crimea, in other areas, in the south of the country, in the occupied areas of Donbas and Kharkiv region to be very careful, please do not go near the military facilities of Russian Army and all those places where they store ammunition and equipment, where they keep their headquarters.

– Mykhaylo Podolyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The focus for the Russians very much is still in that small area( in the Donbas), whereas for the Ukrainians it seems to be pushing forwards and creating a breakthrough in Kherson.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian army has already destroyed almost the entire Donbas. Once one of the most powerful industrial centers in Europe is simply devastated, the occupiers are destroying it city after city.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Taking The Donbas( would be) a consolation prize, because Kyiv is now out of Russia's military grasp, but The Donbas's The Donbas.

– Samir Puri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's symbolically very important ; The Donbas supplied Soviet Union with raw materials.

– Markian Dobczansky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In propaganda since 2014, The Donbas has become a sacrificial lamb in Russian narratives, it's the place where New Russia have cultivated a cult of victimhood. They've managed to turn their own fomenting of a war into a narrative of victimhood at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists.

– Markian Dobczansky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's more comfortable, militarily, for New Russia to fight a war in The Donbas than it was in Kyiv, Sumy, or Kharkiv, but it's also the place where the Ukrainian army's most experienced and fortified units are located... so they'll face the most severe resistance.

– Markian Dobczansky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Soviet Union intensively developed The Donbas as an industrial center, it was a place that set the tempo of Soviet industrialization.

– Markian Dobczansky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's every possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin will move now to effectively bisect Ukraine ; that will give Russian President Vladimir Putin enough to be able to declare a victory domestically, and allay Russian President Vladimir Putin critics that this has been a botched invasion, taking The Donbas( would be) a consolation prize, because Kyiv is now out of Russia's military grasp, but The Donbas's The Donbas.

– Samir Puri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Security guarantees and the neutral, non-nuclear status of our state. We are ready to accept this. This is the most important point, the issues of Donbas and Crimea must be discussed and solved.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The public and individual experts are wondering what we are doing in the area of the blockaded Ukrainian cities, these actions are carried out with the aim of causing such damage to military infrastructure, equipment, personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the results of which allow us not only to tie down their forces and prevent them from strengthening their grouping in the Donbas, but also will not allow them to do this until the Russian army completely liberates the territories of the DPR and LNR.

– Sergei Rudskoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Initially, we did not plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians, and although we do not exclude such a possibility, however, as individual groupings complete the tasks set, and they are successfully solved, our forces and means will be concentrated on the main thing -- the complete liberation of Donbas.

– Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed, the combat potential of the armed forces of Ukraine has been significantly reduced, allowing us, I emphasize again, to focus the main efforts on achieving the main goal - the liberation of Donbas.

– Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To spare people from this suffering, from this genocide -- this is the main reason, motive and purpose of the military operation that we launched in the Donbas [ an eastern Ukrainian region ] and Ukraine.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think that was a mistake. I think I know what he was trying to say, you know, going into the Donbas. But, no. Let's just make it clear, Putin's not a genius, Russian President Vladimir Putin's Russian President Vladimir Putin.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Dear Ukrainians, this morning, President Putin announced a special military operation in the Donbas.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russia is explaining to people inside of the country — to the Russian public — that it is actually defending its citizens inside of Donbas, on the state media … you could see that the propaganda machine was working, explaining that Kyiv is killing people.

– Ekaterina Kotrikadze

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

According to our estimates, what is happening in the Donbas today is genocide.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In 2014, an actress claimed that a little boy had been crucified in the Donbas, and that was completely false, it was debunked, but this story ran on Russian media and, to my knowledge, they still run with that story.

– Nina Jankowicz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The war with the Russian Federation has been going on for eight years. We live in this state all the time almost every day we receive news about the injuries or deaths of our soldiers in the Donbas.

– Illia Rykov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Almost every day we receive news about the injuries or deaths of our soldiers in the Donbas. i decided that not only our army could help stop the aggressor, but also citizens like me. I am not a military man, but I was ready to learn how to defend my family and country.

– Illia Rykov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been giving out hundreds of thousands of Russian passports to pro-Russian residents of the Donbas -- now Russian President Vladimir Putin has an even further pretext to go in and say they need to be protected.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for Donbas? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    (law) the act of substituting of one creditor for another
    A howdah
    B sapling
    C subrogation
    D preponderance