Example Sentences

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The Fins lights ringing the stadium painted the top deck in red, white and blue while outside vendors hawked U.S. and Mexican flags, scarfs and brightly colored serapes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2021

He made serapes and scarfs, shawls and blankets.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

They wore brightly colored serapes and headdresses festooned with little balls, and they were laughing and singing and playing tambourines and flutes, and grabbing onto his legs.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

Colorful serapes warm the beds, and mimbre baskets from a Native American reservation provide light.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2018

Walking on campus one day with my mother and father, I reEshed the surprised look on their faces when they saw some Hispanic students wearing serapes pass by.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez