Example sentences for: cortés

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

  • It just happened that Quetzalcoatl promised to return in the same year that Hernán Cortés landed in Veracruz.

  • It is known that Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of Mexico, had a milagro made in the shape of a gold scorpion, which he offered to the patroness of his home, Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Guadalupe, Spain.

  • She bore one son by Cortés.

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

  • She became known as La Lengua, meaning “the tongue,” because of her work as a translator for Cortés.


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