Example sentences for: pueblo

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

  • Almost as the Spaniards founded their capital on the ruins of an Indian pueblo, the American conquerors of New Mexico built their territorial capital on and around a dilapidated Spanish-Mexican core, little of which remains today.

  • The first two pueblos to be founded were the Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, near San Francisco, and, in the south, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula — “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels by the River Porciúncula.”

  • The Spaniards noted that it was the Pueblo women who built the adobe walls.

  • There was much borrowing and exchange of materials, fibers, and dyes between the Pueblo Indians and the Spanish in the textile weaves of New Mexico.

  • Others, Hispanic and Anglo, came to see in this revival commercial potential, and modified versions of the old Pueblo and Territorial styles have dominated, indeed monopolized, architecture in the capital ever since.


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