Example sentences for: barrio

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

  • In the Barrio Santiago, there are streets with houses that have their own small front yards and façades that, on the surface, make them indistinguishable from ordinary homes.

  • See Barrio

  • Hoyo Marvilla, another well-known barrio in East Los Angeles, was famous because it was where farmworkers lived and was extremely poor.

  • Erected as a counterpoint to the rest of the barrio, and as the lead dog in the municipal government’s plans to upgrade this artist’s neighborhood, the stark museum is worth visiting, primarily for architecture buffs.

  • Sanchez-Tranquilino has analyzed the displacement of graffiti by murals in Chicano communities and finds that murals can be an extension of the barrio calligraphy rather than an attempt to control gang vandalism, as is sometimes assumed.


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