Selling lottery tickets is a great industry in the Sierpes, the sale of tickets for the next Corrida de toros even more so.
He said they would have golf in Madrid, that the corrida would leave in time, but for the present the people must have the corrida.
In the days of the first and second Madrids, athletics could not be contemplated; the corrida was supreme and solitary for Spanish "sport.
Still the corrida flourishes, but it is threatened.
If thecorrida de toros was ever as bad as it has been described by some, it has improved very much of late years, and most of its revolting features are eliminated.
It is in this phase of the fight that we trace the origin of several of the suertes which are practised in the modernCorrida de Toros.
Once begun a corrida knows no intermission, even though a man is killed.
The skins so swollen when the corrida begins are limp and flaccid when it ends.
The corrida was distinguished particularly for its clumsiness, though the fighters, while young, were not without reputation.
Each corrida began with the usual caparisoned parade, the throwing of the key, the fleeing of the over-cautious alguaciles amid the jeering of the multitude.
He even admitted that he found the goring of the horses unpleasant and that he would gladly see that feature of the corrida eliminated if there were any other way of tiring the bull before the last act.
It was by all odds the greatest corrida I was privileged to attend during the summer, for the three matadores stand in the front rank of their profession.
Unfortunately-- At any rate, I came out to this second corrida in Seville and left it with the hope of seeing several more.
But after long debate and deep investigation it had been concluded that a corridawith four bulls, no horses, one real matador, and seats of all shades and distinctions at one peseta each might be conceded.
Two butchers skinned, quartered, and loaded this into a wagon from the central markets in exactly eleven minutes, the vehicle rattled away, and the week's corrida was over.
I was sure of it when you stopped opposite the placard of the corrida outside, and shook yourself with joy.
Armed with the ticket engraved with the magic words “Corrida Real” over a black and white sketch of a mounted picador, I was allowed to enter.
Probably the King was congratulating Carmona on the bull given by him to the Corrida Real.
He was quite aware that Brown was probably the only Englishman in those islands who would have been able to reserve desirable places at a corrida de toros.
On occasion, the drawing of a charitable lottery is held at the Corrida de Toros, and then there are gala features.
Such sweetness flooded the soft black eyes, as they were lifted from the child, that it was hard to imagine them sparkling with savage delight over the bloody scenes of the corrida de toros.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corrida" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
