NOUN
- a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight
How To Use banderilla In A Sentence
- Ask for a "banderilla," a small skewer of spicy, pickled veggies CNN.com
- Using banderillas and the muleta, his performances with both are varied, as are his movements with the cape.
- ‘El Soro’, who is the most spectacular of all with the banderillas, has always fought 50 or more fights per year.
- The chief matador arms himself with two banderillas and proceeds to taunt the bull by himself assuming a taurine pose, banderillas poised above the head like horns.
- Ideally they want to plants the banderillas as close as possible to the wound where the picador drew first blood. These stabs further weaken the enormous ridges of neck and shoulder muscle.
- The banderillero, carrying a banderilla in each hand, runs towards the charging bull at an angle and places the banderillas in its neck.
- Ask for a "banderilla," a small skewer of spicy, pickled veggies. Chicagotribune.com -
- Sometimes firecrackers are ingeniously inserted, which go off when the banderilla is deftly fastened in the beast's quivering flesh. Six Months in Mexico
- Their job is to insert two banderillas (decorated wooden sticks with spiked ends) over the horns into the bull's neck muscle.
- Spain, was brilliant with the cape, fine with the banderilla and poetic with the muleta. Mexico