Example Sentences

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O.J.’s face was a sculptor’s dream, like a Toltec mask.”

From Golf Digest • Apr. 2, 2020

Martinez is a fifth generation railroader and started working at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic in high school.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2018

Toltec and local Mayan cultures tell stories in the rocks with jaguars, eagles, snakes and sacrifice, wisdom and folklore that remain mysterious and mesmerizing to this day.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2018

Invaders from the north, the Toltec, moved into the lands occupied by the Maya.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Demographically speaking, they lived in the hinterlands, remote and thinly settled; their lives were as far from Wari or Toltec lords as the nomads of Siberia were from the grandees of Beijing.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann