How to Use samba in a Sentence

samba

noun
  • The band played a samba.
  • This week Chmerkovskiy is back and ready to dance a spicy samba.
    — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Two samba deer, a tiger's favorite meal, dart out of the thick canopy for safer ground.
    — T.j. Olwig, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The samba rolls were some of the most beautiful.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The main conductor of the float mixed with the rest of the samba school and left.
    — Mauricio Savarese, Orange County Register, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Ostapenko said samba, a lively dance with a lot of rhythm, is her favorite.
    — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 10 July 2018
  • As kick-off time nears, the samba beat quietens down and the players turn to prayer.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • There’s a salty breeze dropping live rhythms of samba-rock on a snaking ribbon of humans.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Her samba wasn’t too shabby, either.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Crowds of soccer fans jumped for joy next to men dressed as samba dancers and sweet-15 princesses.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2018
  • Forty-five minutes into the film, the credits roll to the rhythm of a bouncy samba.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • This week, many people sounded off on the Facebook page of the samba schools guild.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2017
  • The pandemic upended these samba schools' way of life for two years.
    — David Biller and Mauricio Savarese, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
  • When the city got safer in the early 2000s, samba made a comeback.
    — Sarah Esther Maslin, 1843, 4 July 2019
  • Pedra do Sal, a historic site with links to the slave trade, hosts the city’s most famous free samba show.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In the coming weeks Victor meets my friends for pumpkin carving and samba lessons.
    — Anastasia Garcia, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Jennings had an off night on the samba early in the competition.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
  • And a little bit of Jazz, mostly cool jazz and Brazilian jazz/samba these days.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The visit was topped off with a quick jaunt into a closet to try on outfits and a surprise samba dance lesson.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Mr Gilberto was a star of bossa nova, a musical style that fuses jazz and samba.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2019
  • Music genres run the spectrum from samba and salsa to tribute and cover bands.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The city woke us right up with a wall of humidity, the scent of salt and waste, and a soundtrack of samba spilling from corner stores.
    — María Cristina Lalonde, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The samba, the rhumba, the salsa, a little foxtrot, a little hip-hop, and a little cha-cha-cha.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • So where did the life of Prodigy samba off to after his gig ended in 1996?
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 July 1998
  • The song launches into bouncy jazz piano, shakers and a buoyant chorus that sings of the urge to dance samba.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Or the dancing and marching to the sounds of Brazil's samba or Scotland's bagpipes.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 1 July 2026
  • The week-long samba party draws millions to Rio each February.
    — Sarah Esther Maslin, 1843, 4 July 2019
  • This week’s is the Besos Jazz Trio, featuring swing tunes and sambas, boleros and musettes.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Downstairs, local African and Afro-Brazilian artists play live samba.
    — Amara Amaryah, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2023
  • Last month, as a steady, pre-rainy season wind whipped off the Atlantic Ocean, the sounds of samba, morna and jazz filled the streets.
    — Ricci Shryock, NPR, 27 May 2026

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