Fidel

[ fi-del; Spanish fee-thel ]

noun

1. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Into that glut of information, Cuban-born playwright Machado incorporates magical realism — a strategy that adds a sense of wonder and possibility but ultimately helps keep “Celia and Fidel” from being a satisfying riff on history.

From Washington Post

One wishes that, in this play, she came across as less of a dramaturgical Fidel accessory.

From Washington Post

President Miguel Diaz-Canel has only been Cuba’s undisputed leader since the retirement of Fidel’s brother Raul Castro as party chief three months ago.

From Time

The name Castro still carries plenty of weight within the party and the army, but Raul is now 90 years old, and the new politburo is composed almost entirely of a younger generation of leaders who can’t match Fidel’s political charisma.

From Time

In 1950, Serna earned his Ph.D. from the University of Havana, where he had befriended a classmate named Fidel Castro.

From The Daily Beast

A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

From The Daily Beast

Today, as president, he constantly praises Fidel and Raúl in his speeches and frequently travels to the island.

From The Daily Beast

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

From The Daily Beast

MIAMI — Fidel Castro seized power in January 1959 after waging a guerilla war against then-dictator Fulgencio Batista.

From The Daily Beast

He is the most remarkable in-fidel in the United States, and I really think he believes what he preaches.

From Project Gutenberg

He banishes his sons-in-law with his two daughters to the same desert place where Fidel formerly lived.

From Project Gutenberg

While they are at breakfast the old general asks Fidel if he also does not know something to relate?

From Project Gutenberg

Fidel says to her, “Yes, I see again this terrible thing; it is coming after us quickly, and is going to catch us.”

From Project Gutenberg

He sends away his beautiful horse with all his things, and Fidel stops there, not being able to drag his old horse out of the mud.

From Project Gutenberg