How to Use mambo in a Sentence

mambo

noun
  • The band played a mambo.
  • They learned to dance the mambo.
  • And now let’s play with merengue or mambo.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026
  • African rhythms became the guaguanco, the mambo and the merengue.
    — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2017
  • This year, starting in June, there has been a mix of mambo, funk, soul, brass band big band and more.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Carla favors soul and old hip-hop, while Cesar loves funk and mambo.
    — Jessica Benda, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • In the dance at the gym, toward the end of the mambo section, there’s a musical passage that struck me as reckless and goofy.
    — Tony Kushner, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • There are also brief interludes of him dancing tango, mambo, salsa and merengue.
    — Richy Rosario, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
  • And then that Caribbean beat — somewhere between mambo, merengue, and dembow.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
  • Dolce & Gabbana’s mambo prints, every iteration of that print sold.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Puente would go on to popularize Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo and cha-cha-chá.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Nowadays, most proms are held in hotel ballrooms, which are convenient for those who want to slip upstairs and do a little horizontal mambo.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
  • With a mix of Caribbean flavors such as dembow and mambo, electronic dance beats, and of course, perreo, the album was made for the summer.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 6 May 2022
  • The reception music was kicked off by The Cuban Trio, who performed a blend of classic salsa, bolero and mambo.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Like the city in which the style was created, salsa is a melting pot of genres such as mambo, son montuno, Latin jazz and other elements.
    — Julian Voloj, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • There’s also a beginner Latin group class that covers cha cha, mambo, merengue, rumba, salsa, swing, bolero, samba and hustle.
    — Sarah Kuta, The Know, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Zoomba at the Zoo is a 90-minute dance/aerobic workout class, featuring salsa, merengue, mambo and hip-hop.
    — Rianne Coale, RedEye Chicago, 18 May 2017
  • One teases the passer-by with bands of translucent glass wrapping a core of clear windows; the other, with floors angled in and out — a gentle architectural mambo.
    — James S. Russell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Her high-energy style of mixing Latin beats such as salsa, merengue, bachata, reggaetón and mambo along with a little bit of cumbia are garnering her fans across the city.
    — Sonia Ramirez, Chron, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The two Debbie Downers didn’t learn much during the retreat, which is why my bet is on them doing the horizontal-mambo in the future.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • In the Caribbean, drums were also used in religious rituals, which evolved into dance rhythms, like the Cuban son, mambo, chachacha and danzón.
    — Deborah Ramírez, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
  • In the club scene, which focuses on New York mambo, Scott wanted Torres, who choreographed it, to have his moment.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • Her father, Gaspar Escalera, was a saxophone player in a popular mambo band.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
  • These Havana natives perform fluent, easy mambo and son cubano that transports listeners to not just another place, but another time.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • The album is often as leisurely as a beach vacation, blending gentle dembow beats and twinkling production with sudden twists of mambo, house, and reggae.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2022
  • So here’s a mambo piano, here’s a Dominican electro-merengue, here’s a piña colada raised to merengue queen Fefita la Grande.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Throughout, Miranda makes a valid attempt to merge mambo, hip-hop, and a bit of EDM with his trademark leafblower-of-lyricism flow.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Produced by Chris Jedi and Gaby Music, the electro-merengue and mambo fusion is about a girl who’s hitting the club with her friends to get over a heartbreak.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Un Verano Sin Ti is packed with back-to-back hits that, sonically, all sound completely different (from dembow to mambo and alt-rock).
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Vivo needs to get from Havana to Miami to deliver a very special song to a famous mambo singer (voiced by Gloria Estefan).
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021

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