Example Sentences

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Vaqueros once ate something like it on cattle drives across the estancias of South Texas, through the Rio Grande Valley, where Tex-Mex, or Texas Mexican, has its roots.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2019

Soon the page filled up with the names of sights: national parks, caves full of prehistoric paintings, estancias.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011

Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pe�n of the "camp," working for his keep and a little more on the great estancias, found few with whom to gather; even his rooster crowed only twice, because there was no answer.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had already been told that strangers had arrived from distant estancias bringing evil tidings.

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon