picador

Example Sentences

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He meant he wanted to be a picador with the house’s heritage rather than just aiming for the heart of the nouveau riche.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2011

Turtle At Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unamuno places guilt as deftly as a picador against whose fearful horse's flank the blundering bull of social judgment charges.

From Time Magazine Archive

Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon —that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out on the plateau beyond the town employees of the bull-ring exercised picador horses, galloping them stiff-legged on the hard, sun-baked fields behind the bull-ring.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway