Example sentences for: spanish-

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

  • The city of some 55,000 as it exists today derives much more from the town built by Anglos who have been attracted here since the mid nineteenth century than from the Spanish-Mexican colonists and their descendants who populated the tiny frontier capital for over two centuries previously.

  • 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).

  • Confidential , 1997), is decorated for heroism in the Spanish-American War and then exiled to an isolated fort high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California--a seemingly godforsaken place where, at least in winter, the only passers-by are starving wagon-trainers.

  • 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.

  • The rise of Spanish-English conflict marks the exit from Eden: "From the moment the European rivals began fighting among themselves for territory, ...


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