Example sentences for: burritos

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

  • Flour tortillas and burritos are found in northern Mexico and the Southwest, but are not known in other parts of Mexico.

  • Originally they were called tacos; another story about the origin of the name is that in the 1940s there was an establishment in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, called Los Burritos that sold tacos made of tortillas de harina (flour tortillas).

  • Fifteen years ago, few people north of San Antonio had heard of burritos, fajitas, flautas , or chalupas . Today, thanks to franchise Mexican restaurants, they have become a part of America's vocabulary.

  • One theory is that when flour tortillas became available in northern Mexico, tacos de frijoles, or bean burritos, were easy to carry in the saddle-bags of the vaqueros (cowboys), so for this reason they came to be called burritos as though they were the sidekicks of the vaquero’s horse.

  • Burros is the name reserved for the very large tortilla burritos, in which the tortilla may be a foot and a half to two feet in diameter.


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