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Example sentences for "manada"

Lexicographically close words:
man; mana; manacle; manacled; manacles; manage; manageable; managed; management; managements
  1. At the same moment further succour arrived for the besieged, for a second band of strangers rushed forward like a manada of forest tigers, and taking the Indians on the flank, made a desperate attack.

  2. All at once a terrible crash was heard, and the vanguard of the manada appeared on the skirt of the forest.

  3. Manada is the name given in the old Spanish possessions to an assemblage of several thousand wild animals.

  4. The three men rose, drew on their belts, walked hastily along the path formed by the manada through the forest, and soon disappeared under its covert.

  5. They soon plunged into the stream, which they crossed in a straight line, and their long serried columns glided up the other bank, where the head of the manada speedily disappeared.

  6. Terrible was the spectacle presented by this manada flying in horror, pursued by wild beasts, and enclosing, amid its ranks, the fire kindled by the hunter, and which seemed like a gloomy lighthouse intended to indicate the track.

  7. The animals that led the manada could not resist the pressure of those that followed them; they were thrown down and trampled underfoot by the rear, but the latter, assailed in their turn by the heat, also tried to turn back.

  8. The presence of his manada offered some guarantee, that he might still be near the ground where the vaquero had marked him.

  9. Their judgment proved correct; for following the trail but a short distance farther, we came full in sight of the drove, which the vaquero confidently pronounced was the manada we were in search of!

  10. The manada followed, at first galloping in line; but this became broken, as the swifter individuals passed ahead of the others, and the drove were soon strung out upon the prairie.

  11. The mares had answered his first signal with a responsive neigh; and tossing up their heads, the whole manada was instantly in motion.

  12. The plan seemed feasible enough; but it was advisable that we should surround the manada before attempting to disturb them, else they might gallop off in the opposite direction, before any of us could get near.

  13. The steed might be near; perhaps lying down in the shade of the thicket; perhaps with a portion of the manada or some favourite in one of the adjacent glades.

  14. He might still be in the neighbourhood; or had he forsaken the manada altogether, and gone far away over the wide prairie in search of new conquests?

  15. There was but short time for him to reflect upon it; the manada was drawing near.

  16. The manada had gained distance upon the spotted mustang; the mustang upon the blood bay; and the blood bay--ah!

  17. At this crisis the manada disappeared from, the sight both of the blood-bay and his master; and most probably at the same time from that of the spotted mustang and its rider.

  18. The manada had been cleverly guided by the hunters toward the entrance of a canyon, or ravine, which ran between two rather lofty hills.

  19. He announced that the horses had been started, that a large manada was now crossing the Plain of the Coyotes, watched by the vaqueros, and that they must make haste if they wished to have good sport.

  20. No; but at the first manada I come to I will lasso one.

  21. A manada of about ten thousand head was two leagues off on the plain, quietly grazing in the company of a few elks and buffaloes.

  22. This manoeuvre had gone on for some time, and they had sensibly drawn nearer, when the manada began to display some signs of restlessness.

  23. When a manada of buffaloes is hunted, especially if it be composed of bulls, a strong smell of musk is exhaled; when full galloping, their hoofs crack the grass, as if it was dried.


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