Example sentences for: cortés

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

  • Cortés is supposed to have stated, “After God we owe this conquest of New Spain to Doña Marina.”

  • I was also guilty of asking her to serve a pork chop in adobe rather than adobo . The latter is a sauce related to the mole that Moctezuma served to Cortés.

  • She informed Cortés about a planned ambush at Cholula, which saved his life and caused the massacre of thousands of Indians.

  • During the whole Spanish Conquest period she spoke for the Indians to Cortés and translated Montezuma’s dialogue to him.

  • Cortés was well received because he was thought to be Quetzalcoatl and the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spaniards was legitimized.


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