Men called banderilleros enter the ring and use weapons called banderillas (colourful short spears with harpoon ends) which further weaken the bull when they are stabbed into the top of the bulls back. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The banderilleros do their grim business, planting coloured spikes in the bull's back, making the blood stream down its sides. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Worst of all was the delegating, the wearing down of the bulls to the banderilleros. ❋ JTK Belle (2010)
Everybody from the picadores to the banderilleros to the toros themselves are role models. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The banderilleros encourage her from the sidelines. ❋ Cristina García (2010)
Three of the five, in fact, are related to her: Manolo and Paco Iturralde, her trusted banderilleros, are second cousins, as is Octavio, who doubles as her sword boy. ❋ Cristina García (2010)
The banderilleros look more nervous than Suki has ever seen them. ❋ Cristina García (2010)
The bullfight begins with the entrance of the three matadors, each followed by his assistants, the banderilleros and the picadors. ❋ Unknown (2006)
After three lancings, generally, a trumpet blows and the banderilleros enter. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The brightly dressed banderilleros, the three toreros who are part of the cuadrillo of their matador. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They come at him one at a time, waving their brightly-colored banderillas, the long, barbed sticks that are to be planted in the bull's hump, two sticks at a time, one run for each of the banderilleros. ❋ Unknown (2004)
These are followed by the despised, hulking, picadores on horseback, then the brightly-clad banderilleros, and finally the mulillas, the men whose teams of mules will drag off the dead bulls. ❋ Unknown (2004)
By this time the sense of duty was so strong upon us that if there had been a bull-feast we would have shared in it and stayed through till the last espada dropped dead, gored through, at the knees of the last bull transfixed by his unerring sword; and the other toreros, the banderilleros with their darts and the picadors with their disemboweled horses, lay scattered over the blood-stained arena. ❋ Unknown (2004)
We would go and remain in our places till everybody else was placed, and then, when the picadors and banderilleros and matadors were all ranged in the arena, and the gate was lifted, and the bull came rushing madly in, we would rise before he had time to gore anybody, and go inexorably away. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The banderilleros, who will be the first to test the bull, move to the opposite side of the ring and along with the senior matador, await the first bull. ❋ Unknown (1997)
