bullring
noun
bull·ring
ˈbu̇l-ˌriŋ 
also ˈbəl-
1
: an arena for bullfights
2
: a short oval track for horse or auto racing
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Time had passed for the venerable bullring, and finding a place on the schedule didn’t make sense for innumerable reasons.
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Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
That makes Afternoons of Solitude, in its uncompromising way, a doc as muscular and ferocious as the poor creatures being ritualistically slaughtered in those bullrings.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2024
Mercifully, we’re spared the sight of ears being cut off as trophies, though seeing the half-dead animals roped by the horns and dragged out of the bullring by a team of horses, leaving a trail of blood, is a picture not easily forgotten.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2024
Participants race down a narrow cobblestone street ahead of or alongside bulls before funneling into the city’s bullring.
—Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2022
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Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
That makes Afternoons of Solitude, in its uncompromising way, a doc as muscular and ferocious as the poor creatures being ritualistically slaughtered in those bullrings.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2024
Mercifully, we’re spared the sight of ears being cut off as trophies, though seeing the half-dead animals roped by the horns and dragged out of the bullring by a team of horses, leaving a trail of blood, is a picture not easily forgotten.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2024
Participants race down a narrow cobblestone street ahead of or alongside bulls before funneling into the city’s bullring.
—Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2022
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“Bullring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bullring. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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