Example Sentences

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The job of refining techniques of riding and roping — while modifying gear and apparel — largely fell to the resourceful vaqueros, from the Spanish word vaca for cow.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

So when I go to a Cuban restaurant, I'm not looking to the vaca frita or lechon for an authentic experience.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

John Manion, chef/owner of Argentine steakhouse El Che Steakhouse & Bar in Chicago, recently got a shipment of "at least five-year-old" grassfed vaca vieja strip loin from gourmet meat distributor D'Artagnan to sample.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2022

The indecision continued even after Party Leader Georges Marchais had hastily returned from his vaca tion on the beaches of Rumania.

From Time Magazine Archive

The massaranduba is not the only species known as palo de vaca, or cow-tree.

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne