Example sentences for: abuelo

How can you use “abuelo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An old-man figure called el abuelo (the grandfather) played the role of a bogeyman in Hispano folklore.

  • Another dancer, sometimes a small boy, will represent El Toro (the bull), who initiates a bullfight with El Abuelo and is slain.

  • El Abuelo wears a rubber mask, and is dressed somewhat like a white man, sometimes carrying a whip, and directing the rest of the dancers.

  • Throughout the year if children misbehaved, parents would threaten them, “Si no te sosiegas, llamo el abuelo” (If you don’t behave, I’ll call the bogeyman).

  • A description of el abuelo making children “dance the little dove” is also available in Steele’s work (1992, 25).


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