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Samba
"Samba" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Samba is a Brazilian rhythm, isn't it?
The tamborim lends a very slightly uneven and highly distinctive 16th note groove to samba music.
Try samba!
I'm the only Brazilian who can't speak Portuguese and dance samba.
I am the only Brazilian who can't speak Portuguese and dance samba.
I don't like samba.
I know how to samba!
Jenny dances the samba.
The waltz and the samba are dances.
There are words in Portuguese that don't have translation or equivalence in other languages like "açaí", "samba" or "guaraná".
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And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby
They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”
Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888; until then, Bahia had been a major hub of the country’s slave trade. Samba started there for a reason—a fact that Veloso has returned to, obsessively, throughout his career. […] “A samba parade had turned into a brawl,” a reviewer wrote in the Times, adding that the music “suggested a more cool-headed, grown-up epilogue to the shocks of Tropicália.”
In front of an audience, he tends to have a freer conversation with himself. The right conditions turn him into an extrovert. He sambas, in the Santo Amaro style.
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