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Example sentences for: pinto

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

A pinto is a male prisoner, a pinta a female prisoner.
In her words, “Besides rendering a Chicano pinto presence in the rhythms of speech, Santana [the movie character] represents it in the stylized walk and prose of a pinto, a stance honed in the corridors behind prison walls or in the barrios of East L.A.” (1993, 130).
The pinto experience is a subculture of the Chicano experience.
In the early 1970s several Chicano magazines devoted whole issues to literature and art by pintos, always referring to it as pinto art and pinto poetry.
Often ignored is the subculture of the pinto experience that is exhibited in behavior, art expression, and published poetry.