Explore Burro through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like donkey. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Burro in a sentence
Related words
Burro meaning
A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.
Synonyms of Burro
Using Burro
- The main meaning on this page is: A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.
- Useful related words include: domestic ass, donkey, equus asinus.
- In the example corpus, burro often appears in combinations such as: and burro, burro burro, the burro.
Context around Burro
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Burro
- In this selection, "burro" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, racing, old, foot, populations, trail and trailer stand out and add context to how "burro" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an old burro trail and and bites el burro picante s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "burro" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with burro
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Burro is the Spanish and Portuguese word for donkey. (9 words)
Today, wild horse and burro overpopulation has reached new heights and continues to grow. (14 words)
Renewed attention to the regional burro helped start a breeding campaign for its preservation, and its numbers have increased. (19 words)
Today’s road over Guanella Pass, which was only completely paved in 2015, follows an old burro trail and wagon road that served the numerous mines in the area during the heyday of prospecting in the late 1800s. (38 words)
For night owls looking for late-night bites, El Burro Picante’s hours are worth noting: It is open 11 a.m. to midnight, Monday through Saturday; noon to 9 p.m., Sunday. (33 words)
Quechua has borrowed a large number of Spanish words, such as piru (from pero, but), bwenu (from bueno, good), iskwila (from "escuela," school), waka (from "vaca," cow) and burru (from burro, donkey). (32 words)
Example sentences (15)
If you're running and trip, the burro can drag you along the trail if you don't let go of the rope.
Perhaps most alarming for advocates when it comes to the BLM’s management of wild horse and burro populations is the agency’s Adoption Incentive Program.
Pepsi and Winkie took over responsibilities as the Mines mascot in 2021 when the previous racing burro from Idaho Springs retired.
Today’s road over Guanella Pass, which was only completely paved in 2015, follows an old burro trail and wagon road that served the numerous mines in the area during the heyday of prospecting in the late 1800s.
Chogo Prudente set: Chogo Prudente on vocals and guitar; Héctor Diaz on lead guitar; Rai Jhalel Prudente on quijada de burro (ox jaw) and arcusa; and Anibal Cruz López on bongo.
He was given a voucher for the bookstore and he was in. He and my mother along with a baby lived in a twelve-foot Burro trailer for four years.
Today, wild horse and burro overpopulation has reached new heights and continues to grow.
Wild Horse and Burro Specialist Ben Noyes walks into the wild horse trap after a day of gathering during the Diamond HMA on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, near Eureka, Nevada.
Over the past three months, 42 burro carcasses containing gunshot wounds have been found scattered along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 15.
Edwin produces a bottle of Peruvian made, Russian vodka from the kitchen supplies, carried carefully along by a selected mule we call, of course, ‘The Booze Burro’.
For night owls looking for late-night bites, El Burro Picante’s hours are worth noting: It is open 11 a.m. to midnight, Monday through Saturday; noon to 9 p.m., Sunday.
Burro is the Spanish and Portuguese word for donkey.
By the Gold Rush years of the 19th century, the burro was the beast of burden of choice of early prospectors in the western United States.
Quechua has borrowed a large number of Spanish words, such as piru (from pero, but), bwenu (from bueno, good), iskwila (from "escuela," school), waka (from "vaca," cow) and burru (from burro, donkey).
Renewed attention to the regional burro helped start a breeding campaign for its preservation, and its numbers have increased.
Common combinations with burro
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: