Example sentences for: vaqueros

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

  • The Spaniards introduced the system of el rancho, with vaqueros being the workers who herded the cattle and conducting cattle drives.

  • The early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.

  • One theory is that when flour tortillas became available in northern Mexico, tacos de frijoles, or bean burritos, were easy to carry in the saddle-bags of the vaqueros (cowboys), so for this reason they came to be called burritos as though they were the sidekicks of the vaquero’s horse.

  • When Anglo Americans moved into Texas and bought enormous tracts of land, they established huge ranches and hired Mexican vaqueros to work them.

  • The various styles of saddles, from the Moorish to the Spanish war saddle, eventually changed when the vaqueros began making their own saddles, more suitable for riding hard and for quick mounting and dismounting.


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