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Example sentences for: pez
How can you use “pez” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Judging from what Pez dispensers are fetching on eBay, he might just be right.
Since for centuries about the only fish known to the Hispanic hillbillies in the mountain valleys of northern New Mexico were trout, the word for trout, trucha, has become generic, supplanting pez and pescado for fish in everyday language.
So, I concluded, when Nellie Griego subliminally translated her Spanish word for fish into English, in the process carrying over the Spanish gender, it was the feminine gender of trucha or its diminutive truchita rather than the masculine gender of pez that she attached to the English word.
The Post story describes the far more laissez-faire approach taken by eBay, the explodingly popular site that allows users to barter, trade, and sell everything from pez dispensers to can openers.
The Spanish word for fish is pez , a masculine noun, or loosely, pescado , which is also masculine and properly designates fish as game or fare.