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toreador

[ UK /tˈɔːɹiːdˌɔː/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who fights bulls

How To Use toreador In A Sentence

  • In today's opening contest, I've narrowed the field down to Russian Spirit, Fathom Five, Le Toreador, Ishetoo and Fol Hollow but, in the hope that his lowish draw might prove a slight advantage, it's Fol Hollow (1.40) who might just come out on top. Talking Horses
  • I ran, in as dignified a manner as one does when late for a train, while the guard waved a red flag like an accomplished toreador on amphetamines.
  • Set in a Brazilian factory town where familiar operatic characters such as the toreador and Don Jose appear as a rock musician and a lovesick cop, respectively, Carmen provides a dramatic challenge for Les Grands.
  • I applaud his swift-footed move: Like the toreador who dodged the bull at the last milisecond, he escaped being gored.
  • Possibly, if the thing became too pensive and soulful altogether, he might give it some title suggestive of the absent lover at the bull-fight -- "The Toreador's Bride" -- or something of that sort. The Coming of Bill
  • And what of the asphalt toreadors who use their own defenselessness as a kind of weapon? Pedestrian Detection
  • They can get through the eye of a needle.… They're also as brave as toreadors.
  • The handsome toreador sat at the bar, his blue eyes and white hair both lightly glistening alike in the poor light the CPI could offer.
  • He constructed a toreador mounted on a horse composed of drainpipes, with bicycle tyres to represent the horse's protruding entrails.
  • His eyes glisten from a web of wrinkles, and I can imagine an event for each line drawn: flying in Vietnam, coaching the Port Arthur Toreadors for fifteen years, losing a wife named Marguerite to encephalitis, losing his only child to the state of California. Between Here and the Yellow Sea
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