por favor
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025
“I said a prayer: Fernando, por favor, no-no-no me molestes, yo tengo miedo. Wait until we get up there and we’ll joke around, but don’t mess around with my house. I was scared.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
Miranda, the creator and star of “Hamilton” and “In the Heights,” asked for coffee—very sweet, very light, por favor.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
Anglos whose ancestors picked up such Spanish words as rancho, bronco, tornado and incommunicado, for instance, now freely use such Spanish words as gracias, bueno, amigo and por favor.
From Time Magazine Archive
“No, it is not, señora. You could fall out and hurt yourself when they raise the truck. Do not concern yourself with la migra. Come down, por favor, hurry!”
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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