Porto Rican
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Women’s singles: Infuriating local favourite Sam Stosur has gone out in the first round for the third consecutive year after blowing a match point against reigning Olympic champion and Porto Rican world No58 Monica Puig.
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2018
His father, Alberto, drove a truck for the cane mills of the South Porto Rican Sugar Company and played cuatro in a band along with Mr. Toro’s uncles.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2012
External trade totaled $194,000,000; 88% was with the U. S. Last week, in Washington, able Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis perused thoroughly the annual Porto Rican report of Governor Horace Mann Towner, smiled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Erik H. Nelson, who was engineer officer on the recent Alaskan and Porto Rican flights.
From Time Magazine Archive
A party then went ashore and pulled down the Spanish flag from the blockhouse—the first trophy of war from Porto Rican soil.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
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