Example sentences for: pinto

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

  • 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).

  • Pinto is a term used for prison and also for a Chicano prison inmate.

  • References Chicano Pinto Research Project 1975; Coltharp 1965; Davidson 1974; Estrada 1971; Fregoso 1993; Galindo 1992, 1993

  • 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.

  • The familiar and less familiar company names — such as Taylor, Osborne, and Ramos Pinto — appear painted in white and neon signs on the roofs.


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