Example sentences for: gallo

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

  • Well, `inside of a little' dentro de poco , actually, `of a slap' de sopentón , I mean, `in less than what sings a rooster' en menos de lo que un gallo , here it is time to stop.

  • Some see Gallo as the heir to Scorsese and the '70s neorealists, with the "audacity and flair of a major filmmaker" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They applaud his stylistic flourishes (collage shots, freeze frames), his self-deprecating humor, and audacious premise--a newly released prisoner kidnaps a teen tap dancer (Christina Ricci) to be his fake wife.

  • The animal kingdom provided a rich source: Gallos (gallo cock or rooster) either sang well or had active sexual lives, Gazzas and Gazzanis (gazza magpie) and Malpighis ( male bad, piga a dialect word for magpie) made a habit of gossiping or collecting things, and many Calendris and Calandrinos ( calandra lark) were so named because people believed larks to be remarkably witless.

  • En menos de lo que un gallo makes no sense in that form; it should be en menos de lo que canta un gallo.

  • Dole's biggest backers include the CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, the agribusiness concern whose executives recently pleaded guilty to price fixing, and the Gallo wine family.


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