How to Use conga line in a Sentence

conga line

noun
  • The hermit crabs form a sort of conga line ordered from largest to smallest crab.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2015
  • Ramirez ended the conga line of outs with a single to left field to beat the shift with two outs in the fourth.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The crowd forms a conga line, which Busy P and Breakbot join.
    — Erin Granat, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Imagine no conga line of traffic leading to or from a resort.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Then the whole family forms a sort of conga line back to the bathroom, where the bath is waiting.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Wild turkeys would emerge out of nowhere, scrabbling ahead of us in a conga line before flying into the trees.
    — Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Stop the incessant conga line of concocted deadlines that come and go. Create a national deadline for the achievement of true self-driving cars.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • And Melia has joined the conga line of kid pitching prospects with a great start in Pensacola.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
  • Turn on some music and form a conga line through the house, or listen to an entertaining podcast.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But unlike Walker, none of them were in the conga line Saturday night.
    — Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • In the 1980s, there was a conga line of Cash Box chart directors.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Social trails have disappeared, as has the perpetual conga line, and the wildlife has returned.
    — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2021
  • When the conga line finally stopped, the Guardians were leading, 6-2, and the Rangers were done.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Someone builds a bonfire in the parking lot and a conga line forms, lurching this way and that, skirting the flames, romping past the elephants.
    — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The jingle was a triumph of earworming, and nobody balked at putting baseball at the head of the conga line of signifiers.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Then the Bugs Bunny cartoon, featuring a conga line of base hits, happened.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The conga line at the bottleneck was a large group that had been traveling together, and not a queue of disparate teams trying to reach the top.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
  • After dinner, the couple cut their wedding cake early, followed by an impromptu conga line around the pool, sparklers in hand.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Ice Spice nearly starts a conga line as more and more people appear to wait in the aisle’s wings, hoping to get a chance to meet the Carters.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
  • We’re trapped in a conga line of tourists, each group with its own guide who’s holding their smartphones, taking Instagram-worthy shots.
    — Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 6 July 2020
  • The night featured an array of guest singers, audience dignitaries doing a conga line down the aisles, followed by a balloon drop.
    — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Though there may be no joy in Mudville, much else of the world joined in a psychic conga line Saturday, fireworks shooting out of their ears.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Eschewing the impromptu conga line, Rob was on to the Traitors’ scheme, yet was powerless to stop it.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Wearing brightly colored ornate costumes, the band members handed out maracas to the crowd and invited them to join them for a conga line.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
  • Pitcher Aníbal Sánchez led the team in a conga line around the clubhouse, blowing a whistle to keep everyone up to tempo.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • This was a jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing conga line of events too ludicrous for even the most brazen Hollywood script scribblers.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • The performance closed with the musician — known for her onstage stunts — joining her dancers for a show-stopping conga line as the crowd stood up for a standing ovation.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The Norwegians chanted and danced a conga line throughout the game — even as Swanson’s first homer landed a few hundred feet to their left.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Chabot is seeking his 12th term, and the Westwood resident has fended off a conga line of Democrats in his career.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Shawn was also seen enjoying the party in the background of one of Camila's Instagram story videos as a conga line passed by him.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Mar. 2020

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