Example sentences for: cowboys

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

  • There are traditional cowboys and tough guys on the list, but the former (as in Stagecoach , 1939, and The Searchers , 1956) is limited mostly to John Wayne, and the latter (as in The Maltese Falcon , 1941) to Humphrey Bogart; and you get the sense these films were chosen more out of nostalgia for their stars than for their dramatic power.

  • I was happy to see you refer to a restaurant where "people smoke freely at their tables" as "unsullied," just as I was discouraged but not surprised to learn that cowboys in Marfa, Texas, are dreaming about easy IPO riches.

  • Though we played cowboys and Indians in the street, we did not kill any real Indians.

  • 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.

  • In Camagüey, the cattle-ranch province, rusty watermills punctuate the skyline and vaqueros (cowboys) slouch on horses with machetes and lassos at the ready.


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