How to Use merengue in a Sentence

merengue

noun
  • Stop Sale on the sweet merengues.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And now let’s play with merengue or mambo.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026
  • This year's theme highlights the music and dance of merengue.
    — Joanna Moriello, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Over the course of ten weeks, kids also learn swing, tango, merengue, and fox trot.
    — Gwynedd Stuart, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 May 2018
  • The best singer the genre has ever produced, the highest voice of merengue.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The class will include cha-cha, merengue, salsa and swing and easy-to-follow dance steps.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
  • El Jeffrey, a merengue song about heartbreak to dance the sorrows away.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Grab your dancing shoes and come out and enjoy an evening of live salsa, merengue and bachata.
    — Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
  • There was no invoice showing the origin of the 10 sweet merengues at the front counter.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The adults moved naturally to salsa, chicha, cumbia, and merengue rhythms.
    — Janice Llamoca, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • On one side, there was salsa, bachata, merengue, and reggaeton.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Video posted to social media shows the merengue singer on stage moments before the roof came down.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In the heat of the moment, the Colombian singer and his ex sway to the rhythms of the sultry merengue beat.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The album has everything from merengue to banda and very few reggaetón songs.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2026
  • People passing by the restaurant stopped for a little merengue, while diners danced in their seats.
    — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 May 2018
  • Cars blared music while onlookers, some holding flags, danced the merengue on the sidewalks.
    — Lauren Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Mildred used the leftover egg yolks from her merengue to make mayonnaise, which soon caught on as a bestseller.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2026
  • Separate the eggs and keep the whites to use somewhere else—like a merengue or your Whiskey Sour.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The coconut cream and merengue cookies are usually left untouched.
    — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • In one corner of the clubhouse, Sammy Sosa plays merengue music.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • Carlos Coronel's favorite merengue song played from a small Bose speaker on the ground.
    — Julia Jones and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN, 1 June 2020
  • Pies—lemon merengue, chocolate cream, and coconut cream—are relative newcomers to the menu.
    — Eric Velasco, al.com, 24 June 2019
  • The cake, ice cream and merengue dessert is being revived on all 25 ships in Carnival’s fleet.
    — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 6 Dec. 2017
  • There were more than 60 people, all warming up to merengue music for a now-weekly ritual.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Try your hand at salsa, merengue, cumbia, and norteña numbers as waiters in crisp whites with black bow ties circle the room serving liquid courage.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The white chocolate cake features a lemon curd filling and white chocolate Swiss merengue buttercream.
    — The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time the Puerto Rican reggaetón icon has ventured into merengue.
    — Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Squats may be paired with salsa steps, while other routines blend hip hop, line dancing, Afro beats, country, merengue, and more.
    — Nicky Zizaza, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Also among the dead was Rubby Pérez, the merengue singer who was performing at the night club when its roof collapsed.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Dancing to merengue music quickly channeled my inner Shakira and held the promise of weight loss.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2019

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