The tamale is still a favorite dish, like tortillas and frijoles.
So you two are going back East to school this fall," Harry said as they seated themselves around the kitchen table, cheerful with its red cloth and steaming tamale pie.
I told Carmelita to make an extra large tamale pie.
I think I'll insist on riding Hot Tamale hereafter," asserted Powell.
She promised to give us all a tamale supper tonight, you know.
As originally prepared the tamale was made for conveyance, hence the wrappings of corn husk.
The tamale had its origin in Spain and was carried to Mexico by the conquistadors, and taken up as a national dish by the natives after many years.
Roll this together and lay on them other husks until the tamale is of the size desired.
In the genuine tamale the interior is the sauce and meat that goes with the corn meal which is alternately laid with the husks, and when made the ends are tied with fine husk.
Tamale stirred restlessly with head uplifted and ears pointed straight before up the steep bluff.
Bob turned and glanced the way Tamale was looking; saw nothing, and settled down again on the small of his back.
This tamalemixture is fine for stuffing green mango peppers.
One player is chosen for the Hot Tamale man and stands in the center of the room while the others sit around in a circle.
The Hot Tamale man tries to catch it and if he succeeds, the one who last tossed it changes places with him and the game continues.
Presently Diego glanced at the loophole, and in an instant John whipped the tamale off the plate and thrust it under the cover of the cot.
He did not rush to the bed, eager to read what the tamale might contain, but strolled to the loophole and looked out for at least a quarter of an hour.
He put the tamale down and began to eat a tortilla, keeping his eye on Diego, who slouched by the wall in the attitude of a Mexican of the lower classes, that lazy, dreaming attitude that they can maintain, for hours.
But, like Tamale Jose, they had raided once too often.
Tamale Jose had raided once too often, and prosperity and plenty had followed on the ranches and the losses had been forgotten until the fall round-ups clearly showed that rustlers were again at work.
You are the man who killed Tamale Jose, whom I hunted for unceasingly.
Not many miles to the south of him lay the town which had been the rendezvous of Tamale Jose, whose weakness had been a liking for other people's cattle.
Spurring his mount into an easy canter he swept down to and across the river, fording it where he had crossed it when pursuing Tamale Jose.
He had even now a touch of pride at the recollection how, when his older companions had failed to get Tamale Jose, he with his undeveloped strategy had gained that end.
And then she marched off in that stately way of hers, and Charlie declared he began to feel as if tamale trees did grow in Texas, and that he ought to go around telling folks so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
