Examples of barrio in a Sentence
Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
It is also known as La Colombia Chiquita because of its connection to the barrios in Colombia.
—Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
Residents in the barrio of Cerro Gordo, in San Lorenzo in the southern part of the island, waited nearly eight months after Hurricane Maria before community members organized their own brigade to restore electricity to their neighbors.
—Dylan Moriarty, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
Yet despite all these monuments, both neighborhoods remain typical middle-class barrios.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
The cumbia and vallenato that blare from the speakers in the barrios of Barranquilla or Medellín can also be heard in the streets of La Indepe.
—Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
Veloz abandons his barrio and his girlfriend to pursue his ambition, but fails, and returns to East Harlem and Latin music.
—Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
Given the government’s initiatives, often presented as progress, these barrios are the last obstacle standing in the government’s way.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
It was built in 1927, when the broader area was known as Little Mexico (Dallas’s first Mexican barrio).
—Mariah Tyler, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Spanish, from Arabic barrī of the open country, from barr outside, open country
1833, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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