Example sentences for: vaquero

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

  • Somehow when they pronounced vaquero, it came out of their mouths as “buckaroo.”

  • Arnold Rojas, a Californian vaquero, writer, and memoirist, writes that Joaquín Murrieta was from the city of Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, where church records show that he and Rosita were married.

  • In his reminiscences of vaquero culture and of the impact Mexican Sonorans had on California, Rojas shows a side of Chicano culture not commonly known.

  • In this sense it dates from the 1870s, and, of the several conjectural etymologies, those that link it with the Spanish vaquero or the English Jacky Raw seem at least possible.

  • The definition is a territorial one, with the cowboy working east of the Rockies and the vaquero west of the Rockies.


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