Example sentences for: tortilla

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

  • Literally a little burro or little donkey, a burrito has come to mean a taco made of a wheat flour tortilla instead of a corn tortilla, filled with meat, rice, frijoles (beans), and chile, then folded and rolled up.

  • Other food names that have passed through the Texas pipeline into common usage are chile, enchilada, taco, tamale, tortilla, fríjol, frito, picante, jalapeño, nacho, mescal, tequila , and margarita . It may be interesting to note the Spanish borrowed chile, tamale, mescal , and mesquite from the indigenous Indians before passing them on to us.

  • Locals of all ages, from senior citizens to high-school kids donning Metallica T-shirts, crowd into 18th-century taverns to sip sherry or vino tinto drawn from old wooden barrels, and to munch on morsels of tortilla española.

  • Wheat and flour were introduced into New Spain by the Spaniards, and one can see that the flour tortilla is similar to the flat bread found in many Mediterranean countries.

  • Burros is the name reserved for the very large tortilla burritos, in which the tortilla may be a foot and a half to two feet in diameter.


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