Example sentences for: franco

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

  • Nor, at the other end of the scale, can we match the Spanish superlative suffix - ísimo , e.g., grandísimo, altísimo, bellísimo (rendered in English as the `biggest,' the `highest,' the `most beautiful,' although for an exact equivalency one would use the other superlative form in Spanish, más grande, más alto, más bello ). Nothing I have ever heard in English can match the breadth of lighthearted insult expressed by a Spanish wit some years ago who used the suffix with reference to the notoriously pampered, well-connected, well-heeled, well-placed brother-in-law ( cu ñado ) of Francisco Franco.

  • Madrid flourished in the early 1980s, as characterized by la movida, a hip cultural explosion that rejected the repression of the Franco era through acts of hedonism and creative films, music and theater.

  • Germany and Italy supplied Franco’s Nationalists with arms and air power, and the Soviet Union gave aid to Spain’s communists.

  • Franco's tomb.

  • Franco's dictatorship.


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