How to Use serape in a Sentence

serape

noun
  • Bright serape blankets rest on the backs of the bar stools.
    Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2021
  • The restaurant was planning to put serapes on the chair backs for chilly nights.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
  • This is the place to take visitors who think Mexican food comes with a side of sombreros and serapes.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2017
  • And in a town where the décor can go from place appropriate to cliché with one accent serape too many, Montage gets the design vibe right.
    Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2018
  • Our last night in the trailer, the four of us cozied up under colorful serapes, reading animal spirit cards.
    Hayley Krischer, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The new movie is as moth-eaten as the serapes strewn through the 1960 film, but there’s no denying the appeal of the image of Mr. Washington riding a horse, shooting a Colt and leading a posse of vigilantes to save a mostly white Western town.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2016
  • Dressed in leather chaps, an embroidered shirt and a navy blue bow around his neck, Raudel Jimenez adjusts the Virgin Mary prayer card inside the band of his sombrero before strapping down a serape blanket onto his horse’s saddle.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The 1,000-square-foot restaurant was redesigned by Melissa Ritchie and now highlights the colors of serape blankets, the traditionally brightly colored blankets and shawls made in Mexico.
    Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
  • Texana has all the expected Texan components — big, and really big plus-size cowhides, tooled leather, tile that looks like leather, conchos, decorative iron, portraits of cows, horses and cowboys and serape stripes.
    By Gaile Robinson photos By Ross Hailey, star-telegram, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In one cringe-worthy moment, the Suns team mascot, Gorilla, ran out onto the floor dancing to Latin music wearing an over-sized sombrero on his head and a Mexican serape draped around his shoulders painted orange and purple, the team's colors.
    Daniel Gonzalez, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Filters selected for swimming holes and rest rooms; aspirational, high-res photographs featured serape blankets and speckled tin mugs.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019

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