How to Use bullring in a Sentence

bullring

noun
  • Just a few fight posters from events at the local bullrings are plastered on the wall.
    — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Bravery in the bullring does not lead to clarity outside it.
    — Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Bull runs evolved from medieval farmers herding their animals through town to show them off at the bullring.
    — Ciara Nugent, Time, 17 July 2019
  • Away from the Fujairah bullring, and back to the 21st century.
    — Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
  • Other bullfighters quickly picked up Fandiño and removed him from the bullring, the video showed.
    — Gisela Crespo, CNN, 18 June 2017
  • Among the missing were children who had been beside their parents at the bullring when the structure gave way, Velez said.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • Bull runs happen during eight mornings where people race with bulls along a 930-yard street course to the bullring.
    — Jessica Durando, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
  • The matador couldn’t get out of the way of one of the bulls in time and stayed down holding his butt before being carried out of the bullring in pain.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • According to the outlets, the American was inside the bullring when he was pierced in the calf.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2022
  • Most often, an ear — usually the right one — has been cut off, recalling the matador’s trophy in a bullring.
    — Elaine Ganley, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Most often, an ear — usually the right one — has been cut off, recalling the matador's trophy in a bullring.
    — Elaine Ganley, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • In many of the attacks, an ear — usually the right one — has been cut off, recalling the matador’s trophy in a bullring.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The bullring was built with gadua bamboo, and its multiple levels were packed with spectators.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • Ferdinand still ends up in the bullring, where, in the film's touching finale, his peaceful nature triumphs over all.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Ronda’s main attractions are its gorge-spanning bridges, an intriguing old town, and one of the oldest bullrings in Spain.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Time had passed for the venerable bullring, and finding a place on the schedule didn’t make sense for innumerable reasons.
    — Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
  • My daughter walked over to the Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza, one of the oldest bullrings in Spain.
    — Ernest Hemingway, Philly.com, 6 Aug. 2017
  • The investigator, dressed incongruously in sweater and tie and holding a small metal box, stands in a bullring.
    — Jack El-Hai, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2016
  • More Icons Later in his career, Bacon was fascinated by the dance of death between man and beast in the bullring.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The bulls mainly stayed on course behind the steers which guide them through the narrow, twisting streets to Pamplona's bullring, where the bulls will be killed in bullfights later in the day.
    — NBC News, 11 July 2019
  • Participants race down a narrow cobblestone street ahead of or alongside bulls before funneling into the city’s bullring.
    — Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2022
  • While the novel seems to equate bravery, as manifested through behavior in the bullring, with moral clarity, here the emblem of bravery has been turned into garbage.
    — Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The bullring is erected for a spectacle that originated on the Caribbean coast when Colombia was a Spanish colony.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • And there are few venues in motorsports as unique as Bowman Gray, a quarter-mile bullring that often produces high-intensity racing and post-race theatrics.
    — Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • The animals extended the run’s official length to 2 minutes and 40 seconds by lingering in the bullring before entering the pen.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2017
  • Built in 1785, the bullring’s columns corral the action, creating a kind of Neoclassical theater.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Zacatecas is home to the Hotel Quinta Real, a hotel made from a historic bullring and the city has a cable car transporting passengers to and from its silver mines.
    — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Mercifully, we’re spared the sight of ears being cut off as trophies, though seeing the half-dead animals roped by the horns and dragged out of the bullring by a team of horses, leaving a trail of blood, is a picture not easily forgotten.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Open-air bullrings will be allowed to operate from Monday, according to the new rules published on the Official Gazette Saturday.
    — Thomas Gualtieri, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2020
  • Besides the bullring, flamenco dancing, cathedrals and paella, the Butler Bulldogs got in some basketball during their 4-0 tour of Spain.
    — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 14 Aug. 2017

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