How to Use Costa Rican in a Sentence

Costa Rican

adjective
  • Costa Rican linesman Berny Ulloa wasn’t having any of that.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Dishes include a cheese plate of six cheeses made on the hotel’s farm, along with traditional Costa Rican specialties like black bean soup.
    — Laura Beausire, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2026
  • Here, the family compound is not a playground so much as a pause button, set among the lushly green escape of a Costa Rican coffee estate.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Hacienda Las Marías belongs to an older, more elusive version of Costa Rican coastal life.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • The company’s downfall came not from its ties to the Costa Rican underworld but from Pughsley and the others’ failure to pay taxes.
    — Keith O’Brien, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
  • In Dominical, options range from authentic Costa Rican cuisine to burgers.
    — Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026
  • Food and drink With five restaurants and six bars on property, there is something for everyone in your group, from traditional Costa Rican cuisine to sushi, tacos, and pizza.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Esteban Quesada serves as the Costa Rican producer.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Nearby Playa Naranjo serves as a gateway, with a ferry service linking the peninsula to Puntarenas and the wider Costa Rican coast.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • To estimate how many parasitoid wasp species in the Costa Rican national park have evaded detection, the researchers took cues from infectious disease tracking.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • To the classic base of all Costa Rican dishes—peppers, coriander, onion, and garlic—we've added coyote cilantro, chay, wild anise, uvita, caroa, tamarind leaves, madero negro flowers, and beach asparagus.
    — Chris Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The move to keep Chaves in the administration is unprecedented in Costa Rican politics and will offer the outgoing leader incredible sway over the next government.
    — ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • San José, the Costa Rican capital, in all its throughways and recreation spots, transforms into an emotional terrain through which all the existential torpor and dislocation reverberate.
    — Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
  • That’s because after Piedras Blancas National Park was formed in the 1990s, the Costa Rican government banned new development.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2026
  • Costa Rican authorities have issued a nationwide green alert, warning that an intensifying rainy season and a developing Pacific low-pressure system threaten to trigger even more catastrophic landslides.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • Local reports have suggested Phillips may have been caught in a flash flood, but police have not confirmed what exactly happened to her, according to Costa Rican outlets The Tico Times and La Teja.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
  • My Costa Rican Hammam Experience included a vigorous scrub-down on a marble slab in the steamy hammam that used a Costa Rican coffee bean exfoliator for a local twist, followed by a heavenly massage.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
  • For a truly special culinary experience, book a table at fine dining establishment Las Ventanas and let food and beverage manager Erick Orozco take you on a journey through Costa Rican culinary highlights paired with some of the rarest bottles of wine from his travels around the world.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In-villa refreshments included coffee and tea from the farm, with a traditional wooden Costa Rican chorreador pour-over coffee maker, plus a minibar stocked with Hotel Belmar beer and local beverages, and a variety of Costa Rican snacks, including organic dark chocolate bars.
    — Laura Beausire, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2026
  • As part of these efforts, the US has ousted Venezuela’s former leader, expanded the US embargo on Cuba, prosecuted senior Mexican officials with alleged cartel ties, and punished Costa Rican journalists for criticizing a Washington ally.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
  • The first group of 25 deportees, which arrived at San Jose’s Juan Santamaría International Airport on Saturday, was assisted by Costa Rican migration police in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
    — ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026

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