How to Use amigo in a Sentence

amigo

noun
  • Shawn also, the director, the three of us are like the three amigos.
    — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • Quando eu e meu amigo @leomessi nos unimos grandes coisas acontecem!
    — SI.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Fitting right in with blind mice, musketeers, stooges, little pigs, & amigos.
    — Leanna Commins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Baby Jesus is not so much my amigo as actually to let this happen.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2017
  • After 40 years, Chevy Chase wants to get the amigos back together.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Your barrio, your amigos and amigas, your whole race, nation of origin, culture and rowdy neighbors, are all your gente.
    — Bianca Sanchez, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
  • Sempre vou contar aos meus amigos, filhos e família que tive o prazer de celebrar gols e títulos ao seu lado.
    — SI.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Your ego is not your amigo — especially when healthy self-esteem turns to privileged self-importance.
    — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 4 May 2017
  • Clear and Cohen were amigos, and rather than compete, linked arms on Backrooms and won the producer bakeoff.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 31 May 2026
  • In that pursuit of the unattainable, the two amigos often have achieved cinematic brilliance together.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • That fish — Portugal’s fiel amigo, or faithful friend — is still salted and dried here, though it is now pulled from Norwegian waters.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Now, with their significant others starting to get suspicious, the three amigos decide to hire an actor to play their imaginary friend.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Un médico convertido en pistolero deja pendiente la venganza contra el hombre que huyó con su novia para ayudar a un amigo.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Memes circulated afterward suggesting that Petro had caved to Trump, or that the two were newfound amigos.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The three amigos had to show that the new ban was an improvement on the order that had been stomped to its constitutional demise by one reviewing court after another.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Mar. 2017
  • But really our friendship deepened in our travels together around the world with amigo Lindsey Graham.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2018
  • Last week, the feds sent out the warning that the Democrats have taken 42 million hostages in their desperate attempt to preserve their freeloading amigos’ free health care.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • That conservative part of the Democratic Party, adios amigos, goodbye.
    — Las Vegas Review-Journal, Twin Cities, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The last show Steely Dan played was September 20 and all October dates won’t feature the gaucho amigos.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Like so many of his amigos, Carlos Arody Cuevas De La Cruz is handy with a knife, at least according to his rap sheet.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
  • And now, with his passing, along with McQueen and Malcolm — Brown’s famous three amigos who rode into our hearts and enthralled millions, are no more.
    — Mark Dee may 9, Idaho Statesman, 9 May 2026
  • Amigos son los amigos (Friends Will Be Friends, 1989–1992), Grande, Pá!
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 May 2026
  • If Paul had taken the traditional route of exercising his option this summer and cashing in for a massive new contract, that would have essentially forced his three amigos to join him on whichever team signed him.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 6 July 2017
  • His amigo and countryman Alfonso Cuarón was also nominated — in the best short film category — as a producer of Le Pupille.
    — Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Matthews will obviously have help from Matthew Knies, who could take another step after a breakout 29-goal, 58-point season, but their third amigo isn’t going to be a 100-point, two-way star.
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And, as our amigo Michael Cunningham wrote earlier this week, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s latest injury only increases the odds the Hawks land a very early pick (ping-pong balls pending).
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 28 Jan. 2026

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