Example Sentences

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Stewart recommends making pumpkin piñatas, bobbing for apples or nibbling on doughnuts hanging from a string.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Some take animalistic forms, looking like out-of-control piñatas.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

Gochez and volunteers constructed an installation of brightly colored piñatas decorating an archway.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

His parents had gone looking for piñatas — a staple of their family celebrations — at local stores but had come up short.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Sinaloa and Toño burst forth bulging with piñatas piñatas, one for each of my lost birthdays since Toño left I guess.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads