Example sentences for: mestizos

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

  • The indigenous population of Mexico was segregated and not racially mixed, and the mestizos were more closely aligned with the Indians than with the upper classes.

  • Translated as “the people,” it is recognized as meaning all mixed-race Spanish and Indian people, known as mestizos.

  • Spaniards and the clergy were allowed to be buried in the missionary churches, whereas the mestizos (people of mixed race) and Indians were buried in the camposanto located in front or to the right of the church.

  • The early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.

  • So the camposantos were still left for the poor mestizos.


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