conga

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Another visitor, Richard Smekal, posted about the conga line of climbers who packed onto the cables leading to the Half Dome summit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

This neighbor ended up teaching young Melvin to play conga drums and introduced him to his first bass teacher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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

Arnaz gained celebrity as the American popularizer of the conga, an Afro Cuban line dance that his father had once tried to ban.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025

I stood behind Emma, taking up the rear of our strange little conga line, and we began to plod forward across the wreck toward the lighthouse.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs