Manolete
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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By the time Manolete was 27, in 1944, he was appearing in three bullfights a week.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
From then on, Manolete would spend his adolescence hanging around bullfighters, silently absorbing their craft.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
“Now it had happened,” Conrad writes, “happened suddenly and irrevocably”: Manolete wanted to fight bulls.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Even people who adored Manolete always managed to tack on some gratuitous cheap shot about the unpleasantness of his face.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Then he would come close to actual weeping when he described to the class the death of Manolete which he had studied exhaustively while in Spain.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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