matador
Example Sentences
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Their enthralling matador and bull program set to “Paint it Black” eclipsed the season’s best they earned two days prior during the team event, but it wasn’t enough to earn elusive individual Olympic gold.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
The ghost of young matador Pedro Romero, the quiet center of Jake’s storm, waits on the bullring sand.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Flamboyant ticks and leaves like a matador goading a bull.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023
“It’s sad that people who don’t know anything about our sector want to make laws about us,” said Sergio Alzate, 22, an aspiring matador and pupil at the city’s bullfighting school.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2023
“Drawings, usually in color and very large, showing a matador with his cape, a bull trying to gore him.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
