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

Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the jeep pulled back, he saw a picador with a sharper lance astride a well-padded horse nearby and whirled to charge the horse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unamuno places guilt as deftly as a picador against whose fearful horse's flank the blundering bull of social judgment charges.

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