piragua

Example Sentences

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Lin-Manuel popping in here and there as the piragua man.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2021

Miranda, happily a bit player in a world he created, plays the piragua guy.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2021

“There are shots of the food that I grew up eating, the music that I grew up listening to. The piragua guy, I know that guy.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2021

In the middle of the room, a life-size replica of a colorful piragua cart, by Edgar Ruiz Zapata, honors the men and women who sell shaved ice around El Barrio in the summertime.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2019

Papi would stand on the threshold and call us to put on our shoes and he’d take us out for a piragua, or to come out to the steps and he’d tell us a story.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago