How to Use barrio in a Sentence

barrio

noun
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  • The Catholic Church up the road gave Christmas gifts to the children in the barrio.
    — Vanessa Martir, Longreads, 27 Nov. 2019
  • With the pride of their barrio on the line, murgas dance through the city's streets with fervor.
    — Matt Dursum, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Tom Rivera grew up two blocks away in a barrio on the south side of the railroad tracks that bisect the city.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • There must be a thousand Marias in the barrio — a great Spielberg touch.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Usnavi isn’t the only one in the barrio with a sueñito (dream).
    — cleveland, 9 June 2021
  • If the plan is successful, it will be rolled out to other barrios in the city.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2007
  • Some, like Golden Gate barrio, dated back to the 1920s.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Members of the group grew up in the 1960s in the barrio called El Ghost Town, where gang violence was prevalent.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Raised in a barrio east of Los Angeles, Vargas saw how thin the line was for brown-skinned boys.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Every day someone from other barrios would try to come tax a bar in the district.
    — Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
  • They were donated by charities from overseas, but by the time the load reached the barrio, the rich had taken their pick from the lot.
    — Vanessa Martir, Longreads, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Her mother was determined to move the family out of the barrio.
    — Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The street housed a bunch of bars and the original Northgate Gonzalez market, right next to barrios.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • Life is lived out on the streets, in plazas and parks, in the mercados and commercial strips, in the elite colonias and poor barrios that spread far into the mountains.
    — Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Back in her barrio, she’s deemed as an outsider because of her Anglo diction and ways.
    — Marc Silver, Washington Post, 9 June 2019
  • In the music video, both Rochy and Anuel are performing the song at a teteo (party) in a barrio on the Caribbean island.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Barrios recorded three assists last week to lead Dallas to a 6-2 win over Real Salt Lake.
    — Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2017
  • Ayala grew up in public housing in Villa Kennedy, a barrio in San Juan.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Behind the waterfront lies La Chacarita, a friendly and historic barrio that gets a bad rap for drugs and crime, but has more to it.
    — Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Oceanside High is a school hard by a barrio that’s known as gang territory.
    — Lola Sherman Seaside Musings, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • Some of the best souvenirs, though, are from Cacao Sampaka, home to the barrio’s finest chocolate truffles.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Vogue, 25 May 2019
  • Villa Crespo, the barrio just southwest of Palermo, is the up and coming prince.
    — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2021
  • The cumbia and vallenato that blare from the speakers in the barrios of Barranquilla or Medellín can also be heard in the streets of La Indepe.
    — Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Jersey walls block motorists from crossing the span, which runs over a highway and connects the Cambalache barrio to the center of town.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Then, Pedro and Anthony performed for the adoring crowd on a mountain top, with a mix of stars and twinkling barrio lights in the backdrop.
    — Natalie Keyssar, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Others have created memes that poke fun at her for growing up in a low-income barrio.
    — Melania Luisa Marte, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Valdez, now 67, was among the first to settle in what would become the beach city’s predominately Latino barrio of Oak View.
    — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Iceland, a country with the population of a Buenos Aires barrio, found 11 players who could lock down the middle of the pitch and stymie Argentina.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 21 June 2018
  • The tipping point, however, was a song about gasoline, conceived by a hungry star on the rise, smack in the middle of a Puerto Rican barrio.
    — Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Everyone wanted their moment with the barrio boy who won.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2021

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