conga
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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
The rosé flows, club music plays at tolerable volumes and you won’t find any conga lines or overserved patrons dancing on tables for Instagram likes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Sometimes, as has been documented in a BBC series narrated by David Attenborough, they swap shells in a conga line, in which each crab puts on a shell discarded by a larger companion.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
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
And that hat she wore the day she danced the conga line with the Daughters of Mary.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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He also plays the congas and the batá, a sacred Afro-Cuban double-headed drum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
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
Daddy played the congas in a go-go band called the Shaw Boyz with my uncle Robby.
From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
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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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