Portuguese English Dictionary

português - English

corrida in English:

1. race race


The race was fixed.
You cannot participate in race, it is for professional sportsmen only.
The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
The race developed into a free-for-all but Shinomiya lapped the group and in the final stage steadily piled on points with good timing to achieve victory.
An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Due to this a lot of time was lost, it's possible that if it wasn't for this accident the final stage of the race would have been better.
For this race, people under the age of 35 (including 35) join the young people's group; people from 36 to 50 years old join the middle-aged group and people 51 or over join the elderly group.
A black race, they had thick lips, flattened noses and frizzy hair resembling, in these ways, the blacks now living on Earth.
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Far from refuting the thesis that race is to blame for lower IQ score, Lynn's data actually supports it.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

English word "corrida"(race) occurs in sets:

Telegraph Road (Dire Straits) - Tradução

2. running running


He began running.
After running up the hill, I was completely out of breath.
Today I'm shopping in town as well as running an errand for my grandmother.
It's a lot less likely for a Macintosh computer to have a virus than a computer running Windows.
The ambulance went out of control and came close to running over a pedestrian.
I've heard about it. Your parents disappeared, running out on their debt didn't they?
I've gotten much fitter, sleeker, and sexier thanks to all this running from the cops.
Salmonella outbreaks blemished spinach importers' reputation for running clean factories.
You shouldn't sleep with a coal stove on because it releases a very toxic gas called carbon monoxide. Sleeping with a coal stove running may result in death.
I don't like running down members of the staff, but he's the rudest man I've met.
Since the favorite and his rival were running against each other a dark horse like him was able to pull out in front.
I ran. I devoted my entire life to running to a flower that had already wilted when I reached it.
Alain tells me that it doesn't work, so I'm running tests to know if it works.
It must be terribly difficult, running her household on her own after divorcing.
After rounding the Dragon's Tooth, the wind was on our side, and we were flying. It felt like we were running twice as fast.

3. racing racing


Mountain bike racing has caught on with young Japanese in the past few years.
Boats were racing last night.
What's your favorite racing game?
Tom doesn't know a whole lot about racing.
stop racing
He knows better than to spend all his money on horse racing.
He watched the horse racing through his binoculars.
With horse racing and such, these are called "stakes". For this meaning the plural form is often used.
The front-roller thrust angle is 2 degrees, probably there were plans to strengthen that angle a little when racing.
Racing car drivers aren't just in it for the prize money but also for the thrill of racing.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
Alphonse looked at the racing clouds, his eyes turned to the sky.