Examples of maguey in a Sentence
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Juchitán is a grueling, five-hour drive from Oaxaca City past parched Sierra Madre peaks spiked with maguey, the raw ingredient of mezcal.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
But mezcal can be made anywhere proper maguey is found, and around here, the gray-green Lion's Head maguey is abundant.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
And then there are the famous worms, actually a segmented maguey grub.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
Sotelo’s father would wrap the meat in maguey leaves like a tamale.
—Nikki O'Neill, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
So to sample a six-month-aged tequila reinforces the bounty of the land and the maguey.
—Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
Its skin is a grotesque hash of maguey leaves and glue; embedded within it are wayward objects lost along the same migratory route Maravilla traveled as a boy — a child’s Croc, toys, bottles of Lanman Florida Water, commonly used in Central American Cultures to purge bad spirits.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
To make her line of handbags, Sabet works with more than 80 artisan women, many of whom specialize in hand-weaving natural fibers like native estera palm leaves to form colorful totes and caña flecha and maguey to make hoop earrings.
—Michaela Trimble, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2022
Curiously enough, the roots of the maguey are the material in which the image of the Virgin of Juquila (standing out from the family altar honoring Mrs. Uveria’s brother, her daughters-in-law’s aunts and grandmothers, and her parents-in-law) is carved.
—Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
But mezcal can be made anywhere proper maguey is found, and around here, the gray-green Lion's Head maguey is abundant.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
And then there are the famous worms, actually a segmented maguey grub.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
Sotelo’s father would wrap the meat in maguey leaves like a tamale.
—Nikki O'Neill, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
So to sample a six-month-aged tequila reinforces the bounty of the land and the maguey.
—Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
Its skin is a grotesque hash of maguey leaves and glue; embedded within it are wayward objects lost along the same migratory route Maravilla traveled as a boy — a child’s Croc, toys, bottles of Lanman Florida Water, commonly used in Central American Cultures to purge bad spirits.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
To make her line of handbags, Sabet works with more than 80 artisan women, many of whom specialize in hand-weaving natural fibers like native estera palm leaves to form colorful totes and caña flecha and maguey to make hoop earrings.
—Michaela Trimble, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2022
Curiously enough, the roots of the maguey are the material in which the image of the Virgin of Juquila (standing out from the family altar honoring Mrs. Uveria’s brother, her daughters-in-law’s aunts and grandmothers, and her parents-in-law) is carved.
—Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
Spanish, from Taino
First Known Use
1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Maguey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maguey. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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maguey
noun
ma·guey
mə-ˈgā 
plural magueys
1
: any of various agaves (as the century plant) with fleshy leaves
2
: any of several hard fibers obtained from magueys
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