NOUN
- a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico
How To Use Buena Vista In A Sentence
- We head toward the thrum and trumpet call of a loud bolero and enter the bar just as the six-man combo breaks into a loud rendition of ‘Chan Chan,’ the song made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club album.
- On March 6, we listed the Buena Vista Lake shrew, a tiny insect-eating mammal native to California's southern San Joaquin Valley, as endangered.
- The record may well do for these assorted old-timers what the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon achieved for veteran Cuban musicians such as Ibrahim Ferrer.
- Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection The 1991 Disney version The 1991 Disney version required 600 animators, artists and technicians, blending traditional animation and computer-generated images. Beauty and the Beast Through History
- On one such recent walk, Mr. Feinstein pointed to a dandelion growing at the edge of Buena Vista Park in San Francisco and explained, "To most people it's a weed, but that's my garden crop. A Walk on the Wild Side
- The great bust took place near a village called Buena Vista, at a "ranch" called Rancho Villarreal.
- Buena Vista Social Club's nomination last year was welcomed as a sign of providential change in the academy.
- My friend Christian, who famously composts his own (bigger) dogs 'poop, clued me into the importance of red wiggler worms, so I decided to go to nearby Buena Vista Park to dig for some. Boing Boing
- The legendary laúd player from the Buena Vista Social Club exhibits blisteringly fast fingering on his traditional Cuban lute.
- The venerable Jolly Boys, often tagged as the Jamaican Buena Vista Social Club, have devoted their long careers to keeping mento alive and vibrant with their bongos, banjos and kalimba.