Sentence examples for blin from inspiring English sources
The word "blin" is not a word in English
It is a Russian word meaning "buckwheat pancake." To make an example sentence in English, you could say: "I had blinis for breakfast this morning."
proper noun
An ethnic group from Eritrea.
Blini is the Russian word for pancake (though sometimes called bliny), and it's one blin, two blini, in case you were wondering about the plural form.
The Red Star blin offers a satisfying burst of salty salmon roe, draped in hot, lacy pastry and delivered in minutes.
The blini are too large to cram in one's mouth three at a time like Chichikov, but one imagines Gogol's penny-pinching hero would have balked at the prices anyhow — eight to ten dollars apiece. (Russian headlines heralding Teremok's international move had goggled at New York prices; in Moscow, a blin with sour cream will set you back just two dollars).
The blin is so ubiquitous in Russia that the word is also used as a mild expletive: a polite Russian might mutter it after stubbing her toe, in place of the curse word blyad.
With bank loans and the remains of his capital, he turned to a quintessentially Russian product: the blin.
A sweet blin with creamed honey and pine nuts brought with it echoes of the pine forests of Siberia, washed down with bitter black border-hopping espresso.
Government, why do you always lie, always?" rap Fou Malade and his "Bat'Haillons Blin-D" ("Fou Malade and the Armored Battalion," with a play on the word for "rags," haillon) in French, in the song "We're Going to Tell Everything".
These, famously, are the shorthand coördinates for the postapocalyptic, existential terrain of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," which premièred in Paris, in 1953, at the Théâtre de Babylone, under the direction of Roger Blin.
Beckett had written his play with little hope of seeing it produced, but a grant from the French government enabled Roger Blin to put the play up at the Théâtre de Babylone, in Paris, in 1953.
He was, however, characteristically reticent on the subject of the play's setting, and told Roger Blin, "The only thing I'm sure of is that they're wearing bowler hats".
"Like all U.S. carriers, Verizon has felt the impact of the macro environment in 2009," wrote Julien Blin, an independent analyst who keeps a keen eye on the wireless industry, in a note to clients Tuesday.
