How to Use vaquero in a Sentence

vaquero

noun
  • Our guide and horse wrangler was one Slim, a local vaquero and an old friend of mine.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2024
  • The ranches, vaqueros and cowboys, the windbreaks and orchards may no longer exist.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The boots were custom-made in León, Mexico, a city that is famous for its vaquero boots.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Many customers perusing vaquero boots or waiting for a haircut had not heard of the brewing scandal.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • My dad was a vaquero, transporting cattle via horse and sleeping outside, occasionally for days at a time.
    — Eric Arce, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The two entered the ring waving Mexican and Peruvian flags dressed as vaqueros.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The day also includes a 5K, a free wrangler breakfast and a vaquero cook-off at Market Square.
    — Austin Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The charro is far from a modest vaquero, but a venerable caballero (gentleman) who has mastered the wrangling artistry of the frontier.
    — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • White cowboys herding longhorn cattle and Latino vaqueros with high-stepping Mexican dancing horses lined up to march through town.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • Irish and Scottish laborers moved to the West to work on railroads, while Mexican vaqueros herded cattle on the open range.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • The American cowboy, so much a part of the iconography and outlaw ethos of country music, is based on the Mexican vaquero.
    — Craig Marks, New York Times, 27 May 2024
  • To drive huge herds of cattle to the markets, the Florida cattlemen used whips (an ancient tradition acquired from the vaqueros of Spain).
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Imagine, say, a quiche made with jalapeños, spinach, queso fresco and cilantro, or that vaquero cowboy steak, sauced with a wine reduction including huitlacoche, the truffle-like corn fungus.
    — courant.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Before John Wayne and Gary Cooper, there were the noble vaqueros of Mexico, myth-makers in their own right.
    — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The basic design, probably based on Spanish vaquero boots, has been around since the 1800s, and visually at least has changed very little.
    — Bob Beacham, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
  • Santa Maria barbecue traces its roots to beef cooked over open fires by Mexican cowboys, or vaqueros, who worked the local ranches in the 19th century.
    — Julia Thompson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
  • Available at vaqueros stands near sections 204, 229, 416 and 446.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Like the zoo, the Witte has five actors who play a range of characters, including a cowboy, a vaquero, a paleontologist and an archaeologist.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 5 July 2019
  • Traditional western dramas were more likely to depict vaqueros as bandits than hard-working ranch hands whose contributions were fundamental to the American West.
    — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • What began as a utilitarian necessity for anyone getting around by horse, the earliest cowboy boots took inspiration from the footwear worn by Spanish vaqueros in the 17th century.
    — Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2023
  • African American cowboys and Mexican vaqueros found their contributions minimized, their skills appropriated and repackaged in a way that erased their integral role in shaping the cowboy identity.
    — Essence, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Though the Spanish and Portuguese brought horses to the Americas, historians say, Mexican vaqueros developed the techniques and gear that became the foundation of the cowboy tradition.
    — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But it was then followed up by a Spanish hymn, sung by musicians, dressed in 18th-century Spanish Colonial attire, including the garb of soldado, vaquero, pioneers, military, and indigenous peoples.
    — Brian Hackney, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The Smithsonian Museum estimates that one in four cowboys was Black, working alongside Hispanic vaqueros and Native Americans to help settle the West.
    — Bo Evans, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026

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