How to Use samba in a Sentence

samba

noun

• The band played a samba.
• The main conductor of the float mixed with the rest of the samba school and left.
  — Mauricio Savarese, Orange County Register, 26 Feb. 2017
• This week Chmerkovskiy is back and ready to dance a spicy samba.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• The soundtrack is a funky kind of samba-soul and the vibe is just as up-tempo as the beat.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• When the city got safer in the early 2000s, samba made a comeback.
  — Sarah Esther Maslin, 1843, 4 July 2019
• Two samba deer, a tiger's favorite meal, dart out of the thick canopy for safer ground.
  — T.j. Olwig, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2021
• You’ve just got to take that into doing the samba parts.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Forty-five minutes into the film, the credits roll to the rhythm of a bouncy samba.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• Bands huddled in a circle that sing, tap on tambourines and bang drums to the rhythm of samba.
  — Luis Andres Henao, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• This week, many people sounded off on the Facebook page of the samba schools guild.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2017
• Ostapenko said samba, a lively dance with a lot of rhythm, is her favorite.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 10 July 2018
• Crowds of soccer fans jumped for joy next to men dressed as samba dancers and sweet-15 princesses.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2018
• So where did the life of Prodigy samba off to after his gig ended in 1996?
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 July 1998
• Pedra do Sal, a historic site with links to the slave trade, hosts the city’s most famous free samba show.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• There’s a salty breeze dropping live rhythms of samba-rock on a snaking ribbon of humans.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2018
• The show includes sounds of Brazilian samba, 1930s Cuban dance music and Parisian cafe tunes.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• And a little bit of Jazz, mostly cool jazz and Brazilian jazz/samba these days.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
• If that isn't enough to enhance someone's mood, the sound of At Random's fountain on the way in and '60s samba jazz in the background ought to do it.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2021
• Our fiction ranges from Florida to Ghana, from Ireland to the samba joints of 1930s Brazil.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 2 June 2018
• The samba, the rhumba, the salsa, a little foxtrot, a little hip-hop, and a little cha-cha-cha.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Her samba is insanely strong, and the judges (mostly) agree.
  — Justin Kirkland, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• In the coming weeks Victor meets my friends for pumpkin carving and samba lessons.
  — Anastasia Garcia, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2021
• This year’s theme is inspired by the African diaspora in Brazil, so expect to hear a few samba beats. Don’t have a mask?
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• Gabriel Jesus opened the scoring at 19 minutes after a samba-style play from right-back Dani Alves.
  — Mauricio Savarese, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• Bachelor alum Matt James and his partner Lindsay Arnold earned a 22 out of 40 for their samba.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• The pandemic upended these samba schools' way of life for two years.
  — David Biller and Mauricio Savarese, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• Brazil’s top samba schools filled Rio’s Sambadrome, home to the festival since the 1980s, with buoyant and elaborate floats and dancers.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2022
• In the redemption round, Gomez and Mraz were both assigned to do foxtrots, while the reality star drew the samba.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
• Downstairs, local African and Afro-Brazilian artists play live samba.
  — Amara Amaryah, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2023
• From my balcony, the golden sands of Copacabana, sounds of samba, and neighboring favelas seemed so close and far all at once.
  — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024