barrio

Example Sentences

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In that same barrio, Flores raised three children with her first husband, Walter Gavidia, a police detective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

It was a tough start though as he left his family's home in a barrio in Colombia's second-largest city Medellin to pursue that dream.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024

Then there was Maria, whom I met via a mutual friend in the working-class barrio of Tepito in Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

She also made attempts to pass herself and her children off as Spanish or French as they moved from barrio to barrio, living what Mr. Belafonte would call an “underground life.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

Birds left the barrio, and insects disappeared into hidden cracks and crevices, taking their songs.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago