How To Use Puerto Rican In A Sentence
- The same impulse led Puerto Ricans in New York to build casitas, small, brightly painted island-style houses, in vacant lots in the Bronx or Spanish Harlem to offset the surrounding slablike tenement buildings. Mambo On My Mind
- But everywhere in New York are seen Puerto Rican flags, and small casitas (little houses) similar to those seen on the island dot a variety of local lots and community gardens.
- As Esmeralda Santiago, author of the acclaimed novelized memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, states in the volume reviewed here, ‘The ironic thing for me is that in Puerto Rico I was considered American.’
- The traffic policemen used the Puerto Rican neighborhood to dump their quota of tickets.
- Whatever one thinks of the death penalty, it appears quite obvious that the decision to seek capital punishment will be a mixture of inefficacious and antagonizing to those Puerto Ricans who believe that they were promised a measure of genuine "sovereignty" in the "compact" the Congress passed in 1950. Balkinization
- The bomba is a uniquely Puerto Rican musical genre for dance. Indybay newswire
- His ammo bearer was a Puerto Rican, a nice kid.
- Whether Cuban , Mexican or Puerto Rican , most Latinos revere la familia.
- These might include Chicanos, Cajuns, Amish and Puerto Ricans.
- Three endemic birds are the Elfin-woods warbler (Dendroica angelae), Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata), and Puerto Rican bullfinch (Loxigilla portoricensis). Puerto Rico
