aficionado

Example Sentences

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He could move with the grace of the tango aficionado he became or with the slow, pained gait of the cancer-ridden editor he played in “The Paper.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

If he’s an aficionado of fiction, there’s quite a few in the latest Booker Prize shortlist.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026

Yang, a car aficionado, wanted to give her 2-year-old son a close-up look at the factory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

Jake and his friends stayed at the Hotel Montoya, a fictional stand-in for the long-gone Hotel Quintana, where Juanito Quintana, Hemingway’s friend and fellow bullfight aficionado, once welcomed the lost generation.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

People always assume that because I am into classical music, I’m a jazz aficionado.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman