How to Use bullfight in a Sentence

bullfight

noun

• To me, that roar had the moral tone of the crowd at a bullfight.
  — Fay Vincent, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
• The movie flits between footage of a bullfight, a cockfight and a wrestling match.
  — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2018
• In the 1990s it was known for raising bulls bred for the country’s bullfights and for pastures where cows produced milk sent to nearby towns.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2018
• The roughly minute-long video might be best described as the French-Canadian version of a bullfight.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
• Pay respect to the brave souls before you who have cut their own bangs, like a matador praying before a bullfight.
  — Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2020
• Opponents of Spain’s comic shows at bullfights by people with dwarfism say they are banned by a new law.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• The bulls mainly stayed on course behind the steers which guide them through the narrow, twisting streets to Pamplona's bullring, where the bulls will be killed in bullfights later in the day.
  — NBC News, 11 July 2019
• During its nine-day run, six bulls run each morning in the city's narrow streets, then are killed in afternoon bullfights.
  — Fox News, 8 July 2019
• Before the corrida — or bullfight — was over, one of those activists would leap into the ring to scream his defense of the animals.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
• At least four people have died and dozens were injured after an accident occurred at the venue of a bullfight in Colombia.
  — ABC News, 26 June 2022
• In the Afternoon, his sprawling, hybrid book about the bullfight, was my Hemingway text.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
• At least six people are dead and hundreds more have been injured after stands collapsed at a bullfight in Colombia over the weekend.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022
• The bulls face matadors and almost certain death in afternoon bullfights.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2017
• There was an 18th-century romantic painting of a bullfight by Francisco Goya, who once toiled in the bull ring.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• More than a million tourists visit the nine-day festival, known for its morning bull runs and afternoon bullfights.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
• A 1934 depiction of a bullfight casts Picasso himself as the bull, who is caught between Walter and Khokhlova.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 29 June 2017
• The walls above them are hung with art collected on trips throughout France, including a 1950s poster for an Arles bullfight and a coastal arazzo from Villefranche-sur-mer.
  — Chiara Barzini, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• Those remarks prompted angry bull breeders to answer that, without the bullfights Asiron could forget about the bull runs.
  — Aritz Parra, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2018
• During the nine-day San Fermin fiesta, six bulls are run every morning in the city's narrow streets and then killed in afternoon bullfights.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2019
• Dozens of half-naked protesters lay on the street with fake spears jutting from their backs on the eve of the Spanish festival of San Fermin on Friday, in a recreation of the technique used to weaken bulls in a bullfight.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
• Fiestas de Zapote, which happens in the eponymous neighborhood in San José, is the biggest of these festivals and features roller coasters, concerts, and the largest bullfights of the year.
  — Ashley Harrell, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
• At least six people were killed and more than 200 injured on Sunday when several stands collapsed at a venue holding a bullfight in El Espinal, Colombia.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 26 June 2022
• As the crowd was gathering in the final act for Escamillo’s bullfight, in walked a woman in black (not costume) who strolled across the Bass Hall stage and disappeared in the wings, to much laughter and cheering from the audience.
  — Olin Chism, star-telegram.com, 23 Apr. 2017
• The festivities ended a week later with a lavish bullfight given in the couple’s honor.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 28 May 2020
• At least four people were killed and hundreds more were injured when a section of wooden stands collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia on Sunday.
  — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 27 June 2022
• Start by admiring the azulejo tiles and vintage bullfight posters at Casa Cuesta, in operation since 1880.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2018
• Botero decided at age 14 to dedicate his life to the arts, after managing to sell some sketches of bullfights to fans outside the city's bullfighting arena.
  — Manuel Rueda The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2023
• In my childhood, the Mexicans seduced me with bullfights, handmade tortillas, and the perpetual gossip and tall tales that only tias and abuelitas can pull off.
  — Time, 11 June 2023
• In the auteur’s next film, two women—one a matador gored during a bullfight and the other a ballerina hit by a car—fall into comas and become voyeuristic objects of desire for two men.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2021
• Folded on a chair, as if ready to be worn, is an intricately beaded and embroidered electric-blue bullfight costume from the Mestizo ethnic group.
  — Necee Regis, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024