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Example sentences for: barrio

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Nestled around the walls of the Alcazar is the Barrio de Santa Cruz, the old Jewish quarter, a picturesque maze of whitewashed houses, narrow lanes, and tiny shaded patios that invite leisurely exploration.
The neighborhood known as Cayo Hueso, just behind the Malecón, is a rough-and-tumble barrio once populated by cigar-factory workers.
. Concerning the pochos, the chicanos suspected that they considered themselves too good for the barrio but were not, for some reason, good enough for the Americans” (1971, 203).
Sometimes the writing of names on walls is referred to as plaqueasos, or in contemporary terms, “barrio calligraphy.”
In the novel Maravilla, Laura Del Fuego shows la vida loca of the 1960s in the barrio of Maravilla in Los Angeles.