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
Later, the ebullient Treat People With Kindness saw a giant conga line snaking around the stadium.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
In no time, there were conga lines and limbo contests, and by the wee hours, someone always ended up at the emergency room and at least one marriage was in peril.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
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
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
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
Wakefield had the fighter, Anatoliy Dudchenko, mimic him on the congas and noticed how, when he switched up the rhythms, Dudchenko focused harder and for increasingly longer periods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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
A few secondhand mint-condition musical instruments like trumpets, trombones, congas, and tambourines were on display inside a glass case, their price tags sticking out like a tag on a dead man’s toe.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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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