How to Use capoeira in a Sentence

capoeira

noun
  • Students can learn violin, guitar, drums, voice or piano, along with capoeira, mariachi or Afro-Cuban drums.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Zumbi ruled a huge settlement of runaway slaves who defended themselves against the Portuguese with capoeira, a form of martial arts.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Nearby, a capoeira group rehearses, and a bit further several dozen tai chi students push the air gently away in this direction and that.
    — Juan Cristóbal Cobo, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Most nights there's an impromptu soccer game or capoeira (Bahian martial arts) match, made all the more captivating by the balmy night air.
    — Deborah Dunn, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2016
  • Some of the hurtling upside-down jumps are those usually associated with capoeira, the Brazilian martial arts genre.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Feint and trickery are generalized into a capoeira player’s worldview such that they are revealed to be an unavoidable part of the texture of life itself.
    — Brittany Allen, Longreads, 24 May 2018
  • The princess’ escape from her circumscribed life appeared to be through extreme sports, the friend said, including scuba-diving, capoeira and skydiving.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Past editions have included tap-capoeira fusions, statements of political protest and digital experiments with sound.
    — Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Clapping and thigh slapping recall juba dancing, and a circle dance suggests the rudimentary moves of the Afro-Brazilian martial arts form capoeira.
    — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • Corporación Mangle, a capoeira organization in the neighborhood of Moravia, once the city dump, is also offering online classes.
    — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Its high-power joint motors deliver up to 450 Nm of torque, enabling advanced movements such as flying kicks, capoeira-style rotations, and rapid directional shifts.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Afterward, guests arrived at Parque Lage to musicians playing capoeira music and traditional Baianas dancing and singing from the balcony above.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Although Berry now only teaches aikido, Quiet Storm has classes in a number of different martial arts including capoeira, jiu jitsu and kenjitsu.
    — Marina Affo, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The oppression of capoeira diminished significantly during the 1930s.
    — Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2017
  • But really that's just another way of saying that Bahia is Brazil's most Brazilian state, since so many of the country's contributions to the world, from its Carnaval to its capoeira, were first created in Bahia by Africans and their descendants and continue to grow and flourish there today.
    — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2020

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