samba
Example Sentences
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The electrifying noise and colour of the pre-match now became solely samba and almost exclusively yellow.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
Brazilians will pack into a Queens restaurant where samba dancers provide pregame entertainment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The samba bands and their rhythms follow them around, and the World Cup is a combination of the things they love most.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
This includes older blended traditions such as rumba and samba, newer but well-established blended genres such as reggae and Afrobeat, and groups with unique experimental sounds borrowing from more than one tradition.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vocabulary lists containing samba
South America - Middle School
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South America - Introductory
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South America - High School
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