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bullfighter

[ US /ˈbʊɫˌfaɪtɝ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊlfa‍ɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who fights bulls

How To Use bullfighter In A Sentence

  • Then the first of three banderilleros (usually older bullfighters who form part of the matador's team) individually run towards the bull making him charge.
  • There was the bullfighter, he was easy to recognize, and the bespectacled guy with half dozen cameras hanging from his neck was obviously the shutterbug.
  • As a bullfighter he had little natural grace, and limited ability, but he brought such pluck and valor to the corrida and became a favourite matador of Andalusia, of which Sevilla is the capital.
  • It cues our hate to keep us watching, like a bullfighter taunting a bull: waving red to draw our attention and anger.
  • Based on the French novella by Prosper Merimee and the popular opera by Georges Bizet, Carmen is the story of a fiery Spanish gypsy who spurns her obsessive soldier lover for a flashy bullfighter.
  • It is the kind of place where bulls run through the DNA, where the annual fiesta is the highlight of the year, and where the bullfight is the highlight of the fiesta, where bullfighters are billed like film stars on colourful retro-style posters. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • Art historians will remember that these precocious painters aren't an exclusively 21st century phenomenon: Pablo Picasso showed unusual promise at the age of 8 with his bullfighter painting "Picador," while Dürer crafted a strikingly precise silverpoint self-portrait at 13. ARTINFO: From the Palettes of Babes: 5 Prodigious Child Artists to Watch
  • The tour guide tells us the rules of the bullfight, about famous bullfighters, and a story of a cow that sought revenge for her slain bull-son, only to be killed herself.
  • Spanish bullfighter Manuel Jesus Cid "El Cid" gestures to the crowd as a bull spews blood from its mouth and nose during the seventh bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 13, 2010.
  • Sadly, bullfighting is still very much alive in Spain, with the colorful posters covering every bare space of public wall with the lionized torero or bullfighter shown in regal splendor. “Spain in Mind” Edited by Alice Leccese Powers (Vintage, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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