Example sentences for: tamale

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

  • Interestingly, whereas tamale and frijole have acquired a nonetymological vowel, blints has lost an etymological vowel.

  • Maxey Brooke writes [XV,2] that English tamale is from Spanish tamale . There is, however, no such Spanish word.

  • My explanation is that English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural tamales (whose singular is tamal ), from which they back-formed a new singular, tamale (i.e.

  • A different explanation of tamale was offered in American Speech 48, 3-4, 1973, p.

  • Chile is the country, and even the most ignorant Mexican would not call one tamal a tamale .


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