How to Use mambo in a Sentence

mambo

noun

• The band played a mambo.
• They learned to dance the mambo.
• African rhythms became the guaguanco, the mambo and the merengue.
  — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2017
• Think of it as sparkling glam-rap mambo funk, if that helps.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• See it: The Ball & Chain hosts shows, from salsa to jazz to mambo, from noon until late into the night.
  — Hannah Hayes, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2018
• In the dance at the gym, toward the end of the mambo section, there’s a musical passage that struck me as reckless and goofy.
  — Tony Kushner, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• DJ Markoz Project directed the dance floor with salsa, merengue, mambo and more.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
• Puente would go on to popularize Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo and cha-cha-chá.
  — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• In the club scene, which focuses on New York mambo, Scott wanted Torres, who choreographed it, to have his moment.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• With a mix of Caribbean flavors such as dembow and mambo, electronic dance beats, and of course, perreo, the album was made for the summer.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 6 May 2022
• Produced by Chris Jedi and Gaby Music, the electro-merengue and mambo fusion is about a girl who’s hitting the club with her friends to get over a heartbreak.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2022
• The two Debbie Downers didn’t learn much during the retreat, which is why my bet is on them doing the horizontal-mambo in the future.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• In the Caribbean, drums were also used in religious rituals, which evolved into dance rhythms, like the Cuban son, mambo, chachacha and danzón.
  — Deborah Ramírez, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
• Like the city in which the style was created, salsa is a melting pot of genres such as mambo, son montuno, Latin jazz and other elements.
  — Julian Voloj, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Throughout, Miranda makes a valid attempt to merge mambo, hip-hop, and a bit of EDM with his trademark leafblower-of-lyricism flow.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Zoomba at the Zoo is a 90-minute dance/aerobic workout class, featuring salsa, merengue, mambo and hip-hop.
  — Rianne Coale, RedEye Chicago, 18 May 2017
• Upcoming weeks include free salsa lessons and mambo DJs (Oct. 8) and dance demonstrations and bachata and merengue lessons (Oct. 15).
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2020
• Her high-energy style of mixing Latin beats such as salsa, merengue, bachata, reggaetón and mambo along with a little bit of cumbia are garnering her fans across the city.
  — Sonia Ramirez, Chron, 2 Apr. 2021
• One teases the passer-by with bands of translucent glass wrapping a core of clear windows; the other, with floors angled in and out — a gentle architectural mambo.
  — James S. Russell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• So here’s a mambo piano, here’s a Dominican electro-merengue, here’s a piña colada raised to merengue queen Fefita la Grande.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• There are also brief interludes of him dancing tango, mambo, salsa and merengue.
  — Richy Rosario, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
• Royce, who was born in the Bronx to Dominican parents, fuses elements of salsa, mambo, R&B, hip-hop and suave pop into a 21st century blend.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• The Salon Los Angeles had been crowded every weekend since 1937 with couples twirling to mambo, cha-cha-cha, salsa and danzon.
  — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2020
• There’s also a beginner Latin group class that covers cha cha, mambo, merengue, rumba, salsa, swing, bolero, samba and hustle.
  — Sarah Kuta, The Know, 28 Sep. 2019
• LaChiusa’s lush 15-song score, performed with pulsing percussion and brass by a backstage orchestra, is peppered with Latin bolero, tango and mambo rhythms, and his lyrics are shot through with a rich vein of humor and heart.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
• As far back as the 1920s, Americans have been dancing to Latin music, starting with the tango, followed by -- not in any exact order -- the samba, the conga, cha-cha-cha, salsa, the mambo and all else that followed.
  — Seymour Stein, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2017
• Nowadays, most proms are held in hotel ballrooms, which are convenient for those who want to slip upstairs and do a little horizontal mambo.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
• Dolce & Gabbana’s mambo prints, every iteration of that print sold.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2017
• Vivo needs to get from Havana to Miami to deliver a very special song to a famous mambo singer (voiced by Gloria Estefan).
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Un Verano Sin Ti is packed with back-to-back hits that, sonically, all sound completely different (from dembow to mambo and alt-rock).
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024