How to Use Boricua in a Sentence

Boricua

noun

• Boricua College in New York 15.
  — Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• As iLe recalled, the massive crowds in the Verano Boricua protested in creative and fun ways.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
• True to his roots, Bad Bunny delivered his verses in Spanish with a uniquely Boricua flow.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
• The menu has all the Boricua favorites, the most memorable being the mofongo, pounded plantains spiked with garlic and shaped like a sand castle.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2026
• So the world saw some of Hollywood’s most popular Latino artists and actors, partying Boricua style.
  — Cata Balzano, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Boricua slang like perreo (a type of dance linked to reggaeton music), janguear (to hang out) and bichiyal (a stylish woman) are sprinkled throughout many of Bad Bunny’s songs.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
• Every layer of his performance was intimately woven with the fabric, food, and festive spirit of the Boricua people.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
• There’s the Boricua Martini, a spot-on flavor doppelganger of Puerto Rican rice with pigeon peas.
  — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 29 July 2026
• The restaurant offers over two dozen sweet and savory empanadas, including achiote potato, Boricua with pernil and arroz con gandules, Cubano, guava and cheese and plantain and cheese.
  — Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 4 June 2024
• This historic summer of 2019 became known as the Verano Boricua, or the Boricua Summer.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
• The record blends traditional Boricua sounds like bomba, plena and música jíbara with reggaeton, trap and pop influences that could shape both the musical direction and visual storytelling of the halftime show.
  — Holly Alvarado, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
• Perhaps their most iconic Boricua offering is pastelón ($20), a sweet-savory dish made with plantains, ground turkey, tomato salsa and cheese, layered into a sort of Puerto Rican lasagna.
  — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Nov. 2025
• The album's eclectic throwback sound pays tribute to the singer's Boricua roots, incorporating traditional genres such as Plena, salsa and jibaro into his signature Latin urbano style.
  — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
• The album pays tribute to Bad Bunny's Boricua roots and sees the singer incorporate traditional genres such as Plena, salsa and jibaro into his signature Latin urbano sound.
  — Pamela Avila, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
• In an opinion piece for the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día published Tuesday, the Boricua hitmaker said Bad Bunny’s accomplishment stirred deep feelings within him.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• The team recommended a new tax-increment financing (TIF) district be created within Humboldt Park’s half-mile Puerto Rican stronghold Paseo Boricua along Division Street.
  — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Castanha discusses the survival and resistance of Indigenous peoples in Borikén in the face of Spanish colonization, emphasizing their ongoing cultural practices and political activism, particularly among the Jíbaro (or Boricua).
  — JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
• And after the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting, where about half of the 49 victims killed were Puerto Rican, and the mosque attended by the shooter was intentionally set on fire, Boricua Muslims joined with LGBTQ+, Muslim and Latino communities to grieve and demand justice.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Museum of the City of New York, Taller Boricua, and the New York Shakespeare Festival will all get $1 million, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical, and the Art Students League of New York are to get a grant of $500,000 each.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 23 June 2026