How To Use Banderilla In A Sentence
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Ask for a "banderilla," a small skewer of spicy, pickled veggies
CNN.com
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Using banderillas and the muleta, his performances with both are varied, as are his movements with the cape.
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‘El Soro’, who is the most spectacular of all with the banderillas, has always fought 50 or more fights per year.
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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.
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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.
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The banderillero, carrying a banderilla in each hand, runs towards the charging bull at an angle and places the banderillas in its neck.
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Ask for a "banderilla," a small skewer of spicy, pickled veggies.
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Sometimes firecrackers are ingeniously inserted, which go off when the banderilla is deftly fastened in the beast's quivering flesh.
Six Months in Mexico
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Their job is to insert two banderillas (decorated wooden sticks with spiked ends) over the horns into the bull's neck muscle.
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Spain, was brilliant with the cape, fine with the banderilla and poetic with the muleta.
Mexico
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But William Brownfield is a smart guy and he was not going to waste an opportunity to put banderilla in the wounded Venezuelan bull.
Great Moments in Diplomacy: ambassadors with a message
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The banderillero, carrying a banderilla in each hand, runs towards the charging bull at an angle and places the banderillas in its neck.
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And so he awaited the charge until the bull was within actual arm's-reach, when with a swift rise from the chair and a turn of his body quick as that of a fencer's supple wrist, he bent and stuck the teeth-held banderilla in the bull's shoulder as he swept past.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
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Victor is a very powerful maestro and one of the best matadors placing banderillas today.
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He is a very powerful maestro and one of the best matadors placing banderillas today.
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Cloaks were tossed to attendants, each footman received a red cape, the two _picadores_ took position one on either side of the bull pen gate, the band struck up a tune, the gate was opened and a great Utreran bull bounded into the arena, maddened with the pain of a short _banderilla_, with long streaming ribbons, stuck in his neck as he entered, by an attendant perched above the gate.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
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The important thing is to thrust the banderilla into her - forgive the bullfighting image - to see where the bull will lead us or, should I say, the young heifer.
The Shadow of the Wind
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With the brightly coloured banderillas (barbed darts) he approaches the bull excellently and positions them carefully on the neck, bringing the crowd to its feet with applause.
