bullfighter
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Jake sends Brett off with the bullfighter Romero.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
His father opened El Califa de León in 1956, naming it for a well-known bullfighter who happened to be a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
“They take it for granted that people are being denigrated or laughed at, and it’s the opposite: the respect they have for us is impressive,” Daniel Calderón, a dwarf bullfighter, told the EFE news agency.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Her father, José Ramirez, was a well-known Mexican bullfighter under the name Gaonita.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Manuel Castellan used to be a bullfighter in Mexico, forty years ago and about twenty-five billion miles away from here.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Among his favourites were the works John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, but Forsyth adored Ernest Hemingway's book on bullfighters, Death in the Afternoon.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2025
Botero early in his career seized on sharp visual contrasts: Tiny snakes, parrots, flies and bananas adorn his portraits of blimpy bullfighters, bishops, prostitutes, acrobats, ballroom dancers and politicians.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
A crowd has gathered to cheer the bullfighters, but when a particularly famous one passes by, a man heckles him, barking that he’s nothing compared with the matadors that the city of Córdoba has produced.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
The lineup included top bullfighters Enrique Ponce and Julián “El Juli” López.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2021
They were Hemingway’s bullfighters, living “all the way up.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
