Example Sentences

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At Chez Régine, she served bottles of liquor instead of just cocktails and played a then-exotic mix of rumbas, tangos, merengues and rock songs.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

Yes, they would be subjected to certain indignities for the audience’s delectation, but only the micro-humiliations of botched pasodobles and flubbed rumbas.

From Slate • May 24, 2016

Many Congolese like to reflect on five generations of musicians, whose languorous rumbas and faster modern beats, adored across Africa and beyond, have served them better than any government.

From Economist • Apr. 28, 2016

The speedometer rumbas energetically between 40 and 60mph as we drive hood down, the crow-black diesel fumes of a lorry up ahead filling our nostrils.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2013

It would all happen like the brass sections in the Ruizes’ best rumbas, a meteoric cartoon explosion, with no blood or pain.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat