How to Use hombre in a Sentence
hombre
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On the counter are jars of sprinkles and cakes frosted in hombre green or pink with ornate squiggles at the base.
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Devra First,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Apr. 2018
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King became a martyr in my home, a pobre hombre who died for the idea of social equality.
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Héctor Tobar,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2019
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Young hombres on bikes circled, ready to grab anything, even from moving vehicles.
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David Hammond,
chicagotribune.com,
17 Oct. 2019
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Un ranchero de Texas está enamorado de una mujer que se casará con otro hombre.
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Los Angeles Times,
4 Oct. 2019
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And from there on is the creation story of the Mayan civilization, hombres de maíz.
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Cnt Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Jan. 2024
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So Trump invents the bad hombre, just as the GOP once invented the welfare queen.
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Sarah Jones,
The New Republic,
18 May 2018
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Después del juicio, él descubre que sus acciones liberaron a un hombre culpable.
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Los Angeles Times,
11 Aug. 2019
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La esposa y el ahijado de un hombre planean asesinarlo después de que descubren que se han enamorado.
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Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep. 2019
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The Yankees can’t get fastballs past these superb Houston hitters, the toughest bunch of hombres to strike out in all of baseball this year.
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Tom Verducci,
SI.com,
15 Oct. 2017
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White society deemed him a bad hombre; Vasquez saw himself as a revolutionary fighting an unjust system.
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Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2022
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The Warriors’ most sensitive and emotionally fragile player might be the coldest-blooded crunch-time hombre in the league.
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Scott Ostler,
SFChronicle.com,
11 June 2019
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That Texas trio took its inspiration from being Lone Star State beer-drinking boogie-rock hombres.
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John Adamian,
courant.com,
19 May 2018
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The kind hombre in the cowboy hat walking past the baseball diamonds in the park, pushing a freezer chest on wheels, will happily sell you your favorite ice cream treat for no more than a dollar or two.
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Monique Judge,
The Root,
12 Oct. 2017
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Un conductor apartó la mirada para leer un texto y se estrelló contra ellos y contra otro hombre, empujando a Mitchell al río.
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Erika Pasantes Y John Maines,
El Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2018
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An effective water feature can create a misty, cooling microclimate, but why bother spending that money when the only people who visit are nasty women and bad hombres?
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Nell Scovell,
ELLE Decor,
25 Oct. 2016
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When Elias traded for Corbin Burnes shortly before the start of spring training, fans were thrilled not just because the Orioles suddenly had a bad hombre atop their rotation.
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Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
21 June 2024
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As the leader of a ragtag group of hombres out to defend a helpless community from a violent sociopath (Peter Sarsgaard), Denzel shoots for the strong, silent type but winds up somewhere between dull and bored.
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Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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From Bond villains to corporate crooks like Gordon Gekko, cinema's bad hombres keep elegant lairs austere enough to match their indifference toward humanity.
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Ryan Smith,
Chicago Reader,
21 Dec. 2017
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That may go unnoticed by most American viewers, but the presence of drugs, human trafficking, and plenty of stereotypical Latino bad hombres will be recognizable to them, based on other projects set in this region.
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Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
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Those folks at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio were only dangling 200 feet above terra firma for ten minutes, but for this hombre, that’s ten minutes too many.
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Matt Reigle Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Only 46% of us hombres are up to-date, compared with 60% of white men, 61% of Puerto Ricans and 49% of Central and South Americans, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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