How To Use Picador In A Sentence
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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
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Totally confident of his untested capacity, Jose put on the picador's uniform and, for the first time, settled onto a horse.
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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.
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There was funding for a lance-wielding horseman - or 'picador' - but only on one of the two days.
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Next the picadores, mounted on horseback, gore the bull with lances to weaken him, and the banderilleros stick colored banners into his neck.
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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).
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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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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
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Not quite so," said I. "The lance of the picador is to keep the bull from goring the horse.
The Madness of John Harned
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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.’
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Art historians will remember that these precocious painters aren't an exclusively 21st century phenomenon: Pablo Picasso showed unusual promise at the age of 8 with his bullfighter painting "Picador," while Dürer crafted a strikingly precise silverpoint self-portrait at 13.
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The best example of this is seeing in the ancient war horses, trained and ridden for maximum maneuverability in combat, or in contemporary picador horses used in bull fighting.
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They were the Picadors, the pariahs of the bullring.
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His other family is his cuadrilla, the close-knit team of picadors and banderilleros who join him in the ring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chamois trousers of his borrowed Picador's costume were patched and baggy.
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They then escort the matadors to the enclosure, followed by the picadors - matadors on horseback.
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The author Picador poached from Random House is, incidentally, the first British winner since 1998.
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Mitch asked the speculative question deftly like a picador sticking a tormenting pic into the unsuspecting bull's neck.
KISS OF THE BEES
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It lifted the horse clear into the air; and as the horse fell to its side on on the ground the picador landed on his feet and escaped, while the capadors lured the bull away.
The Madness of John Harned
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They then escort the matadors to the enclosure, followed by the picadors - matadors on horseback.
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The bull charged, and of course the horse knew nothing till the picador failed and the horse found himself impaled on the bull's horns from beneath.
The Madness of John Harned
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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).
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In the Orient young bulls are tested for the fight arena in a certain manner. Each is brought to the ring and allowed to attack a picador who pricks them with a lance.
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At length, in a moment of great irritation, excited on the one hand by his intense interest in the poor suffering girl, and anger at the peevish, helpless Don Picador, Don Ricardo, to our unutterable surprise, rapped out, in gude broad Scotch, as he brushed away Senor Cangrejo from the bedside with a violence that spun him out of the door -- "God -- the auld doited deevil is as fusionless as a docken.
Tom Cringle's Log
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This is beyond books, " said Paul Baggaley, publisher at rival firm Picador. "It has become an event which is a phenomenon.
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The bull is encouraged to charge one of the picadors, who can now attack it with the lance, piercing its neck and back muscles in order to make it lower its head, without which it would be impossibly dangerous to fight on foot.
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Accompanied by bugles, two picadors then make their way out, their horses sheathed in an unwieldy but effective armour.
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While the bullock is a constant danger, the show descends into comedy when two dwarf “picadors” enter the ring.
Mexican Dwarf Bullfighters | Impact Lab
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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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Art historians will remember that these precocious painters aren't an exclusively 21st century phenomenon: Pablo Picasso showed unusual promise at the age of 8 with his bullfighter painting "Picador," while Dürer crafted a strikingly precise silverpoint self-portrait at 13.
ARTINFO: From the Palettes of Babes: 5 Prodigious Child Artists to Watch
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The horse on which the picador is mounted is bought only to be killed.
Six Months in Mexico
