Matamoros

[ mat-uh-mawr-uhs, -mohr-; Spanish mah-tah-maw-raws ]

noun

1. a seaport in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Brownsville, Texas.

Matamoros

/ ˌmætəˈmɔːrəs; mataˈmorɔs /

noun

1. a port in NE Mexico, on the Río Grande: scene of bitter fighting during the US-Mexican War; centre of a cotton-growing area. Pop: 481 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Charlene D’Cruz, an attorney with Lawyers for Good Government who works on MPP cases in the Rio Grande Valley, said the conditions in the Matamoros camp were on par with some of the worst refugee settlements she had witnessed in Greece.

From ProPublica

Cruz, who was returned to Matamoros under the MPP program in 2019, said she pleaded her case to an immigration judge.

From ProPublica

The tents that had cluttered the Matamoros riverbank across from Brownsville, the southernmost point of the border between Texas and Mexico, were gone.

From ProPublica

Natasha had lived in a migrant camp near the Gateway International Bridge over the Rio Grande that connects Matamoros and Brownsville for 11 months until she moved into the Rainbow Bridge Asylum Seekers shelter last November.

From Washington Blade

The Blade in January reported from the Rio Grande Valley and Matamoros.

From Washington Blade

Raquel lives in a modest brick house in Progreso, Texas, a border town less than 40 miles from Matamoros.

From The Daily Beast

The mayor and Biasi are a popular topic of gossip in Matamoros.

From The Daily Beast

The public debut of the Hercules Group is a day that not many in Matamoros are likely to forget.

From The Daily Beast

The worst kept secret in Matamoros is that Biasi and Mayor Salazar are more than colleagues.

From The Daily Beast

This place is approximately 89½ miles south, and 10 miles west, of Matamoros, Mexico.

From Project Gutenberg

No difference was detected between specimens from the two sides of the tidal inlet 89 miles south of Matamoros.

From Project Gutenberg

On the following day, I marched him off into the dense chaparral, on the bottom lands near Matamoros.

From Project Gutenberg

We found that Captain Swift with the convalescents from Matamoros on another vessel, had arrived before us.

From Project Gutenberg

Captain Swift was still very sick; to all appearance more feeble than when we left him at Matamoros.

From Project Gutenberg