torero

Example Sentences

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“I am anxious to furnish proof that I am a better torero than he, and that I can unseat him from the pedestal on which public opinion has placed him,” Dominguín insisted.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

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

It is this final encounter between the lone torero and the toro which stirs the crowd: a combination of statuesque elegance in the face of the charging animal and suavity of movement.

From Newsweek

"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