picador

Example Sentences

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He meant he wanted to be a picador with the house’s heritage rather than just aiming for the heart of the nouveau riche.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2011

As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury."

From Time Magazine Archive

Shuttling between the two, La Punta bulls develop the sure-footed power that has enabled them at times to throw a picador and his horse five feet up and over the arena's barrier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon —that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out on the plateau beyond the town employees of the bull-ring exercised picador horses, galloping them stiff-legged on the hard, sun-baked fields behind the bull-ring.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway