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Example sentences for "cantina"

Lexicographically close words:
cantie; cantilena; cantilene; cantilever; cantilevers; cantine; canting; cantle; canto; canton
  1. Blue blouses—a corporal’s guard of troopers—were pulling up by the cantina hitch rail as Drew came out into the plaza.

  2. Reese Topham, the Spaniard Don Lorenzo who had been in the cantina last night, the stout Mexican Bartolomé, and Don Cazar himself were all there before him.

  3. They threaded their way to the cantina where the officer dismounted and went inside.

  4. When he left, the three books reposed on the top of his armload of clothing, and a half hour later he dropped them down on a cantina table.

  5. From the back of the cantina emerged a middle-aged Negro.

  6. The cantina owner’s drawl was as slow as ever, but it held a note of a whiplash.

  7. The owner of the cantina raised his glass.

  8. He gazed beyond Drew’s shoulder into the world outside the cantina door.

  9. In the big room of the cantina oil lamps made yellow pools of light.

  10. This time the cantina was filled, with a double row of the thirsty demanding attention at the bar.

  11. The thirsty mozos stood humbly at one end of the cantina drinking their wine in silence while we stood at the counter which served as a bar.

  12. Each has a cantina and thither Don Santiago, Prat, and myself repaired to moisten our dusty throats with native red wine while the mules took a breathing spell.

  13. The señora at the cantina was a pleasant woman.

  14. And midway between the custom-house and the cantina the two cool-eyed, deliberate men of the North faced the hot-blooded Southern haste that demanded Waring as prisoner.

  15. Jack, drift over to the cantina and get a drink.

  16. He entered the cantina and called for a drink.

  17. Just beyond the Mexican boundary, the door of a long, adobe cantina was flung open, and a group of men came out and paused as if they were wondering what they should do next, and where they should go.

  18. She could see the features of the Mexican soldiers lounging before the cantina over there; through the lighted window of the customhouse she could see a dark-faced officer bending over a littered desk.

  19. There was a cantina here, so of course we had more wine.

  20. The people bring their evening meal with them up to the cantina and then sit on the wall outside, or go to a rough table and eat it.

  21. Another family who owned a cantina adjoining Professor Vela's, had brought their evening meal with them, and insisted on giving us a quantity of excellent river cray-fish which looked like little lobsters.

  22. I had not been in the innermost cantina two minutes before I felt thoroughly chilled and in want of a greatcoat.

  23. Did you see any of those men coming into the cantina while we were eating?

  24. There is a good cantina there on the corner, Senor," replied one of the men in answer to Dick's question.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cantina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.