How to Use reggaeton in a Sentence

reggaeton

noun
  • Cafecito and reggaeton are as much a part of the culture as palm trees and neon lights.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • The song talks about reggaeton culture and our culture as boricuas.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Little by little, reggaeton, rap, and bad news are heard again in the distance.
    — Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Then, in its final minute, the song mutates again, this time into reggaeton.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Balvin casts a nostalgic glance at the classic reggaeton beat that fuels most of these tracks.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
  • The hot dog beef of reggaeton is officially over.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2025
  • There’s reggaeton music playing, all her favorite songs and artists.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Dangond blends his vallenato with traces of reggaeton and salsa in a track where the man steps in to help the girl get over a louse.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 June 2018
  • There’s gonna be some comedy at the beginning and then there’s gonna be freaking reggaeton!
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The reggaeton internet—along with scholars and critics—has been waiting for this shoe to drop.
    — Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2024
  • After this initial gold rush, many reggaeton artists went back to the drawing board, thirsty for fresh takes on their beloved homegrown sounds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The former teen sensation's music is a blend of reggaeton, pop and Latin trap.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
  • La gente want reggaeton — and Ryan Castro and Blessd are bringing it.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024
  • Hip-hop became a crucial touch point for country music, for reggaeton, for hard rock, for K-pop and much more.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The catchy song, which is a fusion of reggaeton and pop, dominated the radio airwaves and charts this year.
    — Johnny Diaz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Fans of salsa, bachata and reggaeton music can dance the night away aboard the Sabor on the Bay.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025
  • Then, the mood lightened, the evening progressed and reggaeton, wine and conversation flowed until the late hours of the night.
    — Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Maluma and his fellow Colombians Feid and Sky make a suave reggaeton slow-burner.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • It was meant to salute the singer of the reggaeton hit, Luis Fonsi, who had introduced Biden.
    — Will Weissert and Adriana Gomez Licon, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • It's made him, alongside Bad Bunny and Maluma, leaders of a new wave of reggaeton.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The track has the old-fashioned, clip-clop beat of a cumbia, not the reggaeton or trap rhythms that dominate Latin urban radio.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Don Omar has been one of the biggest names in reggaeton since rising to fame in the early 2000s.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 18 June 2024
  • The two live performances of the festival feature a range of West African, hip hop and reggaeton dances.
    — Alex Haddon, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2024
  • The reggaeton singer sifted through scores of invitations before landing on the lucky couple.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Record labels have been reissuing salsa classics just as mainstream reggaeton artists have embraced the genre in their new music.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The club was hosting a reggaeton and hip-hop event at the time of the incident, according to its Instagram page.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Martin has recorded music that spans Latin pop, dance, reggaeton, salsa and other genres.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Fans latched onto his overdrive vocal style, which sounded like bellows across canyons and fused trap elements into reggaeton.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The Colombian singer is a part of a Latin reggaeton boom that has captured fashion’s imagination in the last year.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 5 July 2019
  • This Puerto Rican reggaeton has been building a buzz since 2016 with a video of him singing.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2021

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