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conga

[kong-guh] / ˈkɒŋ gə /


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I heard, in preparation for this story, that the DJ occasionally requests that visitors form a conga Iine.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The chain’s executives are hoping that those planned visits will include paying $20 to $40 a ticket to join the conga line and throwing down at the bar.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

On social media this weekend, Trump applauded a picture of a map showing a conga line of vessels sailing to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Celebrations included conga lines, bubble machines, dolphins swimming in the ocean alongside them, and sunsets burning orange on the horizon.

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

Aunt Tuti tapped her foot so loudly, it sounded like conga drums.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Within minutes, Mars sat behind a pair of bright red congas for Cha Cha, signalling the start of a set that moved between R&B, funk, Latin influences and pop.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

“Let There Be Love” finds the drummer using his hands on his tom-toms to make them sound like congas, giving the track an Erroll Garner flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

At his signal, the strings went off on a pizzicato run, buoyed by harps and congas, before dissolving into a bass drum pulse beneath simmering horns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

From the sidewalk outside El Fogón, you can see the twin rotisseries slowly spinning in place, the skewers stacked high and wide until they look like congas.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023

Ruben, a lanky, light-skinned Dominican with a finely trimmed goatee, rained thundering blasts down on the kit, while his brother Kaz came in with a suave tuk-tuk-tuking on the congas.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

Schweini should suffer no repeat tonight: these days opponents crumble in front of him, rather than congaing behind him.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010


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