picador

How To Use picador In A Sentence

• While the picador is relatively safe, not so the horse, because the bull sometimes hooks a horn up under the blanket to endanger the unprotected underbelly. There is no such thing as a bullfight
• Totally confident of his untested capacity, Jose put on the picador's uniform and, for the first time, settled onto a horse.
• The earlier books, which have just been reissued by Picador in one paperback volume as "The Patrick Melrose Novels," can be read as the navigational charts of a mariner desperate not to end up in the wretched harbor from which he embarked on a voyage that has led in and out of heroin addiction, alcoholism, marital infidelity and a range of behaviors for which the term "self-destructive" is the mildest of euphemisms. NYT > Home Page
• There was funding for a lance-wielding horseman - or 'picador' - but only on one of the two days. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
• Next the picadores, mounted on horseback, gore the bull with lances to weaken him, and the banderilleros stick colored banners into his neck.
• From that time, it began to follow a particular sequence of events: the entrance of the bull, the picador, the banderilleros, and finally the matador (bullfighter).
• 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.
• Embajador stands as if planted in the sand, alone, exhausted by his charges and confrontations with the picadores, visibly panting, his flanks heaving, abandoned by the matador who disappears behind a barrera. There is no such thing as a bullfight
• Not quite so," said I. "The lance of the picador is to keep the bull from goring the horse. The Madness of John Harned
• It is significant the bullfighter is mounted, he says: ‘In the real story of Carmen, her second lover is not a toreador but a famous picador.’