torero

Example Sentences

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When he announced that he intended to fight bulls, one shot back: “You? You want to be a torero? With a thin and miserable face like that?”

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

La familia de Manolo quiere que sea torero, pero él desea ser músico.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2019

In technical terms Rivera has never been a first-class torero, but this isn’t a necessary or sufficient condition for success.

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2015

Eric Fehrnstrom wields Twitter like a torero wields a red flag.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2012

"Pretty well, sometimes. But I must not let anybody know. It would be very bad, a torero who speaks English."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway