finca

Example Sentences

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“But this was in the countryside, in a finca, in La Vega, Manguito. And ever since then I have dreamed a lot about flying.”

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2023

With those few fat years came a move to Vashon Island, thinking that might satisfy my search for a finca, an escape.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2021

In the first chapter, Basch and Berry are staying at their Costa Rican finca, and Basch requires stitches from a Tica physician.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2019

Pilar, Hemingway's beloved fishing boat, thoroughly refurbished and spiffy, is permanently dry-docked on the finca tennis court, cutting an elegant but forlorn figure, its swashbuckling days of deep-sea trolling and hunting Nazi subs long gone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2018

There was a part of him that could never leave the finca or the comfort of its cycles, and this diminished him for any other life.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García