How to Use bullfight in a Sentence

bullfight

noun

• To me, that roar had the moral tone of the crowd at a bullfight.
  — Fay Vincent, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
• The movie flits between footage of a bullfight, a cockfight and a wrestling match.
  — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2018
• Pay respect to the brave souls before you who have cut their own bangs, like a matador praying before a bullfight.
  — Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2020
• Opponents of Spain’s comic shows at bullfights by people with dwarfism say they are banned by a new law.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• During its nine-day run, six bulls run each morning in the city's narrow streets, then are killed in afternoon bullfights.
  — Fox News, 8 July 2019
• Last year, Colombia passed a measure to phase out bullfights by 2027.
  — Reuters, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
• The bulls face matadors and almost certain death in afternoon bullfights.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2017
• In afternoon bullfights, the bulls face matadors and almost certain death. Herding the bulls through the streets of Pamplona dates back to the 13th century to corral the bulls into a bullfighting ring.
  — Jessica Durando, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
• The opera begins with a kinetic, frantic prelude in the form of a paso doble, the quick march often heard at bullfights.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
• More than a million tourists visit the nine-day festival, known for its morning bull runs and afternoon bullfights.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
• The roughly minute-long video might be best described as the French-Canadian version of a bullfight.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
• Stiller mentions a trip to see a bullfight in Spain, and sure enough we’re treated to footage of young Stiller yelling at a toreador from the stands.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
• The animals are bred to be aggressive and are taunted during the bullfight before being killed.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024
• At least four people have died and dozens were injured after an accident occurred at the venue of a bullfight in Colombia.
  — ABC News, 26 June 2022
• Before the corrida — or bullfight — was over, one of those activists would leap into the ring to scream his defense of the animals.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
• At least six people are dead and hundreds more have been injured after stands collapsed at a bullfight in Colombia over the weekend.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022
• In the 1990s it was known for raising bulls bred for the country’s bullfights and for pastures where cows produced milk sent to nearby towns.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2018
• In the Afternoon, his sprawling, hybrid book about the bullfight, was my Hemingway text.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
• The festivities ended a week later with a lavish bullfight given in the couple’s honor.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 28 May 2020
• Those remarks prompted angry bull breeders to answer that, without the bullfights Asiron could forget about the bull runs.
  — Aritz Parra, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2018
• And the bullfight backdrop of the finale is here reimagined as a rodeo, complete with clowns wearing garish costumes sewn from Texas-esque flags.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
• In the middle of the enclosure for the bullfight of the following day, castles made of straw and oil-lamps that needed to be rekindled over and over again had been collected.
  — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
• Schwörer noted that in Spain or Portugal, the right-wing nationalists might defend the right to hunt and hold a bullfight.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
• The bulls mainly stayed on course behind the steers which guide them through the narrow, twisting streets to Pamplona's bullring, where the bulls will be killed in bullfights later in the day.
  — NBC News, 11 July 2019
• Among those with a box seat for the bullfight was Danny Higginbotham, one of the United substitutes.
  — Jack Lang, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
• Supporters of that view point to the survival of the rodeo, which, like the bullfight, entertains spectators by mistreating animals.
  — Peter Singer, TIME, 26 Oct. 2024
• There was an 18th-century romantic painting of a bullfight by Francisco Goya, who once toiled in the bull ring.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• During the nine-day San Fermin fiesta, six bulls are run every morning in the city's narrow streets and then killed in afternoon bullfights.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2019
• At least four people were killed and hundreds more were injured when a section of wooden stands collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia on Sunday.
  — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 27 June 2022
• Most revolve around the impérios, which are dedicated to the Holy Spirit and can last up to 10 days, with concerts, parades, and bullfights.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026