How To Use Pelota In A Sentence
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It's an occasion as uniquely Ashleyian as pelota is Basque.
The Brimming Cup
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You can be a world-class sprinter, and you still have no chance to chase down the pelota.
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There will be demonstrations in roller hockey and pelota basque, but there's no place for cricket.
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I have used the Spanish word "pelota," but it merely means "ball," just as the Russian word "soviet" means nothing in the world but
Here, There and Everywhere
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Pelota Mixteca games are held in August on Sundays at 5pm and on festival days.
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My own children would play for hours on its vast fronton (court), theoretically for pelota but more often for impromptu football, or rollerskating, or teenage flirting or, at night, dances and fireworks or Basque games (shows of strength).
Classic France: the insiders' guide
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After watching a game of pelota, I sat on my balcony and got drunk on a dramatic view of rocky ridges calmed down by sheep, cows and farmers.
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man, so now even balls can be vaginaed or vaginated, but why only juan pelota? is this a flaming lips lance armstrong collabo?
Culling the Culture: Great Balls of Lips
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In France, a variation of the game is called jeu de Paume ; the Spanish play pelota ; in Italy it's known as pallapugno , while the Dutch play kaatsen and the Belgians call it llargues .
Fives Reasons for Olympic Gold
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British bullfighters, pelota players, kabaddi champions?
Times, Sunday Times
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We passed what looked like three-sided open-air squash courts - frontons, Fernando said, built by Basque settlers who wanted to play pelota in their new home.
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Baseball, known among Cubans as "pelota," the Spanish word for ball, is a source of national pride in Cuba and the country's successes on the field have been used as a promotional tool for its one-party socialist system.
Ireland.com Breaking News
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The rural sports are in decline as younger Basques show greater interest in football or the Basque game pelota, which is similar to squash.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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In France, a variation of the game is called jeu de Paume ; the Spanish play pelota ; in Italy it's known as pallapugno , while the Dutch play kaatsen and the Belgians call it llargues .
Fives Reasons for Olympic Gold
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Just like in tennis the server must land the pelota in the serve box to start a point.
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Hit the pelota (Spanish for ball) with such force that the opposing team can't return it with their cestas.
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The rock hard pelota crushed the side of his head with a 100 mile per hour impact.
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We passed what looked like three-sided open-air squash courts - frontons, he said, built by Basque settlers who wanted to play pelota in their new home.
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Argentina also won a medal on Day 12 of the Pan Americans Games, claiming the first gold in Basque pelota when Facundo Andreasen and Sergio Villegas won the men's rubber paleta event.
SI.com
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It's played with a pelota, a rock-hard ball five-sixths the size of a baseball, and with the explosive bounce of a golf ball.
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Elenamary said ... yeah, i hang out with a lot of pro latino baseball players (mostly from the dominican republic) and they always say things like "me voy para el play" (I am going to the stadium) or "mi amigo el catcher" what is funny though is that dominicans refer to baseball as just "pelota
La Profesora Abstraida
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My other brother was playing cesta punta, he was a pelotari [ Basque handball player ].
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Basque immigrants began building pelota courts soon after they arrived in the United States, and their love of the sport is considered an important factor in unifying the American Basque community.
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Juan Pelota footnote from the W-pedia: "The Latin word 'testis', witness, was used in the firmly established legal principle 'Testis unus, testis nullus' one witness equals no witness...
Passing the Mantle: The End of the Aughts is Nigh
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Argentina claimed the first gold in Basque pelota when Facundo Andreasen and Sergio Villegas won the men's rubber paleta event.
NYT > Home Page
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Ramuntcho is a Basque smuggler and player of pelota, the Basque national game, and the story concerns his adventures and those of his fiancée, Gracieuse.
