How to Use vaquero in a Sentence

vaquero

noun

• White cowboys herding longhorn cattle and Latino vaqueros with high-stepping Mexican dancing horses lined up to march through town.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• Gutierrez said that the band laughed at some of the memes that joked that Styles would be listening to the group’s set backstage and dancing along in full vaquero gear.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2022
• The boots were custom-made in León, Mexico, a city that is famous for its vaquero boots.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018
• The day also includes a 5K, a free wrangler breakfast and a vaquero cook-off at Market Square.
  — Austin Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2022
• The basic design, probably based on Spanish vaquero boots, has been around since the 1800s, and visually at least has changed very little.
  — Bob Beacham, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
• To drive huge herds of cattle to the markets, the Florida cattlemen used whips (an ancient tradition acquired from the vaqueros of Spain).
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• Many customers perusing vaquero boots or waiting for a haircut had not heard of the brewing scandal.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• Santa Maria barbecue traces its roots to beef cooked over open fires by Mexican cowboys, or vaqueros, who worked the local ranches in the 19th century.
  — Julia Thompson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• My dad was a vaquero, transporting cattle via horse and sleeping outside, occasionally for days at a time.
  — Eric Arce, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2021
• Imagine, say, a quiche made with jalapeños, spinach, queso fresco and cilantro, or that vaquero cowboy steak, sauced with a wine reduction including huitlacoche, the truffle-like corn fungus.
  — courant.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• Like the zoo, the Witte has five actors who play a range of characters, including a cowboy, a vaquero, a paleontologist and an archaeologist.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 5 July 2019

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024