bullfight
Origin of bullfight
1Other words from bullfight
- bullfighting, noun
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How to use bullfight in a sentence
Then we marvel at the Teatro Real opera house and proceed through the winding streets of old Madrid to the Plaza Mayor, once the site of Inquisition autos-da-fé, royal celebrations, and bullfights.
He wrote with empathy of women dying in childbirth, while penning paragraph after paragraph about bullfights.
Hemingway: Brilliant writer or avatar of toxic masculinity? | Kathi Wolfe | April 26, 2021 | Washington BladeWhat we remember most from his books isn’t the wars or the bullfights.
Hemingway: Brilliant writer or avatar of toxic masculinity? | Kathi Wolfe | April 26, 2021 | Washington BladeShe saw her first bullfight at seven while on a family vacation in Mexico, and fell in love with the sport.
The Deaths You Missed This Year | Malcolm Jones, Jimmy So, Michael Moynihan, Caitlin Dickson | December 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAcross the stadium in the northeast corner, the mass of red-colored fans of Bnei Sakhnin was like a flag at a bullfight.
Are Beitar Jerusalem's Racist Fans Ruining Israeli Soccer? | Orly Halpern | February 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
No campaign can afford a multitude of competing strategies, or row upon row of bullfight critics publicly questioning every move.
But, she added, “The bullfight is an ecosystem and, one could say, an honest one.”
In the Sunday newspaper, the reporter said that the painting stayed somehow alive through the whole bullfight.
He ceased to find pleasure in his nets and boar spears, in the fandango and the bullfight.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayShe had forgotten that a bullfight meant that there would be blood and killing.
Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border | Annie Roe CarrBy this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bear-baiting.
He swallowed a tumbler of port, a wine he rarely touched; but he felt worse now than after the bullfight.
The Woman-Hater | Charles ReadeShelton was conscious of a shiver running through the audience which reminded him of a bullfight he had seen in Spain.
The Island Pharisees | John Galsworthy
British Dictionary definitions for bullfight
/ (ˈbʊlˌfaɪt) /
a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American spectacle in which a matador, assisted by banderilleros and mounted picadors, baits and usually kills a bull in an arena
Derived forms of bullfight
- bullfighter, noun
- bullfighting, noun
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