Example sentences for: vaqueros

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

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

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

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

  • The King and Kennedy ranches of east Texas are contemporary examples of this tradition and have many generations of Mexican vaqueros still living on their ranches.

  • Monolongual Mexican vaqueros witnessing the folly of such misuse of their implement would shout at the Gringos in excellent Desert Latin (as Spanish has been called): “Dale, dale!”


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