hacienda

Example Sentences

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While Moreno-Garcia's book mentions "importing hacienda workers from China. I have not read the book, and do not know whether this would be considered 'negative.'"

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2024

Word that the gated, four-bedroom hacienda at the end of a cul-de-sac was slated to be torn town sparked expressions of outrage on social media, the Times reported.

From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2023

Shortly after seeing his work in Lima, a Mexican mining businessman hired him to create something for his hacienda.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023

He was among six veteran bullfighters performing for free on a recent Saturday in front of about 150 people at an emerald-green hacienda in Colombia’s Andes.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2023

They were peasants who had also been expelled from their hacienda, arriving as humbly as their ancestors of the preceding century to beg the patron to give them work in the coming harvest.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende