How to Use cha-cha in a Sentence

cha-cha

noun
  • Undergraduates are rushing to sign up for his classes in such old-timey dances as waltz, tango, swing, salsa, cha-cha and two step.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The rumba, the cha-cha and the tango help bring a widow out of mourning in this surprisingly buoyant, unsentimental film about grief.
    — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The offense could've started collectively hitting the cha-cha for 30 straight plays, and the Broncos would've been fine on Monday.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The duo earned eight perfect scores throughout the competition, culminating in a fusion of the cha-cha and Argentine tango for their final dance.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to a freestyle dance performed with other couples, Graziadei and partner Jenna Johnson performed a cha-cha as part of a redemption dance.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Garth and her partner, Hough, earned a perfect score of 30 for their cha-cha-cha, but were eliminated just one day later, in the show's semi-finals, after falling short in the viewer votes.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
  • Beyond his signature and progressive Reparto sound, the studied musician also experiments with funk, cha-cha-cha, R&B, and pop ballads.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Hank claims to be at peace with his decision even in the face of Buck’s four-wheel-drive founders’ gifts and the ecstatic cha-cha-chinging of Dale (and Nolan Ryan), but never have Hank’s slow-and-steady tendencies seemed more out of step with the times.
    — Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • As contestants performed dances like the salsa and the cha-cha onscreen, PEOPLE was inside the ballroom to witness all of the moments the camera didn't catch, including the sweet shows of support from the stars' friends and family in the audience.
    — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The elimination came after Leavitt and Ballas performed the cha-cha-cha to Prince’s ‘1999’ and the Viennese waltz to ‘Slow Love’, each dance earning a score of 29 out of 30.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025

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