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Río Bravo
[ ree-aw vrah-vaw ]
Río Bravo
/ ˈrio ˈbraβo /
noun
- the Mexican name for the Rio Grande
Example Sentences
Both scenes take place in a jail; they’re built out of the same kind of conversational fireworks that Howard Hawks used to make “Rio Bravo.”
In 1984, in a place called Rio Bravo just south of Laredo, Texas, a double-wide trailer burst into flames.
Rio Bravo was, at the time, a subdivision situated next to the Rio Grande, carved out of rented land by a greedy Texas land developer who sold parcels in “open contracts” to undocumented immigrants.
“We bathe in the Rio Bravo, which we were told is polluted,” said Edith Waldan, a 29-year-old Honduran who is now in the U.S. but kept her CBP One appointment a secret while in Matamoros because she feared being kidnapped.
Viewers using the included digital code can stream one of the vintage featurettes, an eight-minute look at Old Tucson Studios where “Rio Bravo” and hundreds of other Westerns were shot.
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