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 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

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

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