How to Use hombre in a Sentence

hombre

noun
  • Un ranchero de Texas está enamorado de una mujer que se casará con otro hombre.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • So Trump invents the bad hombre, just as the GOP once invented the welfare queen.
    Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 18 May 2018
  • On the counter are jars of sprinkles and cakes frosted in hombre green or pink with ornate squiggles at the base.
    Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • King became a martyr in my home, a pobre hombre who died for the idea of social equality.
    Héctor Tobar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • The Yankees can’t get fastballs past these superb Houston hitters, the toughest bunch of hombres to strike out in all of baseball this year.
    Tom Verducci, SI.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Website: maggieandmollys.com Put down your sombrero for a moment, hombre.
    Erica Boniface, The Know, 2 May 2017
  • According to the president, the bad hombres are takers.
    Ruben Navarrette, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2017
  • That Texas trio took its inspiration from being Lone Star State beer-drinking boogie-rock hombres.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 19 May 2018
  • The Warriors’ most sensitive and emotionally fragile player might be the coldest-blooded crunch-time hombre in the league.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2019
  • The kind hombre in the cowboy hat walking past the baseball diamonds in the park, pushing a freezer chest on wheels, will happily sell you your favorite ice cream treat for no more than a dollar or two.
    Monique Judge, The Root, 12 Oct. 2017
  • If the bad hombres were wanted for homicide, molestation or aggravated assault, there’d be something more than an ICE detainer out for them.
    Bill Torpy, ajc, 4 June 2018
  • Qué lástima que hay hombres que se les olvida que están aquí x una mujer y son ofensivos y vulgares contra las mujeres!!!
    Rebecca Rose, Cosmopolitan, 17 July 2015
  • Después del juicio, él descubre que sus acciones liberaron a un hombre culpable.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • La esposa y el ahijado de un hombre planean asesinarlo después de que descubren que se han enamorado.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • In his initial training sessions, a supervisor assures him that not everyone trying to cross the line is just another good person seeking honest work, that there are, as Trump would later put it, some bad hombres coming, too.
    Carlos Lozada, miamiherald, 5 Apr. 2018
  • An effective water feature can create a misty, cooling microclimate, but why bother spending that money when the only people who visit are nasty women and bad hombres?
    Nell Scovell, ELLE Decor, 25 Oct. 2016
  • Un conductor apartó la mirada para leer un texto y se estrelló contra ellos y contra otro hombre, empujando a Mitchell al río.
    Erika Pasantes Y John Maines, El Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Getting rid of 'bad-hombres' As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump made immigration a cornerstone of his campaign.
    Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • And second, this policy established by President Trump and his administration is already helping a lot bad hombres.
    Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
  • From Bond villains to corporate crooks like Gordon Gekko, cinema's bad hombres keep elegant lairs austere enough to match their indifference toward humanity.
    Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017

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