Example sentences for: reata

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

  • Let us now pass on to the names of some clothing items that Texans borrowed and then passed on to the rest of the country: sombrero, mantilla, poncho, rebozo, serape , and huarache . A number of animals and vegetables followed the same route: avocado from aguacate; mesquite; sapodilla from zapote; guayule; coyote; armadillo; ocelot from ocelote; chaparral ; and javalina from jabalina . Since cattle ranching is common to both sides of the border, it should come as no surprise that there has been an exchange of ranch-related words: lariat from la reata; bronco; lasso from lazo; rodeo; chaps from chaparreras; charro; hackamore from jáquima; mustang from mestengo ; and quirt from cuerda or cuarta .

  • ' Even though lariat contains its own Spanish article, when we imported it into English, we added another, the English the , to create a literal the la reata , `the the lasso,' and we never think of it as redundancy.

  • Lariat is compounded from the Spanish la `the' + reata `lasso.

  • What on most ranches in the Southwest is called a ketch (catch) rope is a reata in Mexican Spanish.


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