Example sentences for: spanish-

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

  • When the devil gets the upper hand in me, I like to tease my Spanish and Spanish-American friends about some of the words their language lacks.

  • It was the heyday of the brilliant but lethal Spanish-Italian Borgias: lecherous Rodrigo, who became Pope Alexander VI, and treacherous son Cesare, who stopped at nothing to control and expand the papal lands.

  • A rival Hapsburg claimant was supported by Austria and Britain, who saw a powerful Spanish-French alliance as a major threat.

  • In May 1782, New Providence surrendered to a large Spanish-American invasion fleet from Cuba and for the next year a Spanish governor ruled the Bahamas.

  • Set in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, the novel is part Western (the main character, Ben Tyler, is an Arizona cowboy) and part noir (he's in on an arms-smuggling scam gone bad).


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