Example sentences for: fiestas

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

  • Children learn many traditional dances, and shows are put on by folk dance troupes at resorts as well as during fiestas.

  • The major fiestas are listed in the Calendar of Events (see page 92), but ask the tourist information office about what’s going on during your stay.

  • The Spanish colonists carried on the traditions of their mother country, and to this day there are yearly fiestas in most major towns.

  • The dances, many of which have been danced for decades, such as El Jarabe Tapatio and La Negra, are danced to Mariachi music, and performed on the Mexican national holidays, Las Fiestas Patrias, such as Cinco de Mayo and El Diez y Seis de Septiembre.

  • Private spirituality, which was practiced individually or within the family, stressed sacramental and personal devotions, while the public religious stressed processions, fiestas, symbols, and symbolic action that displayed the beliefs of the Mexican Catholic to the rest of the community” (Dolan and Hinojosa, 177).


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