Example sentences for: josé

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

  • Even in the United States, the art of Mexican painters, such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, was admired and well received because of its Mexican character.

  • Napoleon invaded Spain in March 1808 and invested his older, taller, and more agreeable brother, Joseph, as King José I. On May 2, 1808, Madrid rose up against the interloper.

  • The Castillo de San José, a few kilometers, to the north, is a far more interesting proposition.

  • Some countries name their currency to honor people famous in their history: bolivar (Venezuela) for the liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar; sucre (Ecuador) for Antonio José de Sucre, chief lieutenant of Bolívar and liberator of what is now Ecuador at the battle of Pichincha in 1822 near Quito; colón (Costa Rica, El Salvador) for Christopher Columbus; balboa (Panama) for Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; lempira (Honduras) for the 16th-century Indian chief who is a national symbol of liberty and valor for resisting the Spanish advance; and córdoba (Nicaragua) for Francisco Hernández de Cór doba, first acting governor.

  • The town plan was the inspiration of the Marquês of Pombal, the dynamic hatchet man of King José I, and the town was built from scratch in just five months in 1774, aping the grid layout of Lisbon’s Baixa (lower city).


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