merengue

How to use merengue in a sentence

• The Crown shows the stricken bride in that puffy merengue of a wedding dress.

  Why Princess Diana Is So Hard to Get Right Onscreen | Stephanie Zacharek | October 26, 2021 | Time

• “When I die, don’t light candles for me, let the men dance and the women drink,” he sang in the horn-filled merengue song “Cuando Yo Me Muera.”

  Johnny Ventura, Dominican singer who helped modernize merengue, dies at 81 | Harrison Smith | July 30, 2021 | Washington Post

• “I love the bolero and today’s salsa,” he sang in “Merenguero Hasta la Tambora,” “but I’m a merengue singer up to my tambora,” a two-headed drum played in merengue.

  Johnny Ventura, Dominican singer who helped modernize merengue, dies at 81 | Harrison Smith | July 30, 2021 | Washington Post

• Ventura came of age during the three-decade reign of Rafael Trujillo, a dictator who sought to promote merengue as the country’s national music and dance.

  Johnny Ventura, Dominican singer who helped modernize merengue, dies at 81 | Harrison Smith | July 30, 2021 | Washington Post

• In the afternoon, bands would perform — classical and jazz, calypso and merengue — and some of the singers were quite talented.

  “We Don’t Even Know Who Is Dead or Alive”: Trapped Inside an Assisted Living Facility During the Pandemic | by Ava Kofman | November 30, 2020 | ProPublica