How to Use conga line in a Sentence

conga line

noun
  • The crowd forms a conga line, which Busy P and Breakbot join.
    Erin Granat, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Ramirez ended the conga line of outs with a single to left field to beat the shift with two outs in the fourth.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
  • When the conga line finally stopped, the Guardians were leading, 6-2, and the Rangers were done.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
  • And Melia has joined the conga line of kid pitching prospects with a great start in Pensacola.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
  • The hermit crabs form a sort of conga line ordered from largest to smallest crab.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2015
  • There was a mixed conga line, players and families and kids.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The boys make all the girls iced coffees one last time, and a text announces that tonight’s the Love Island 2021 Summer Ball (to which the islanders do a conga line).
    Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The head of the conga line appeared to be holding a flag in support of President Donald Trump.
    NBC News, 31 Dec. 2020
  • But unlike Walker, none of them were in the conga line Saturday night.
    Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • Someone builds a bonfire in the parking lot and a conga line forms, lurching this way and that, skirting the flames, romping past the elephants.
    Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Though there may be no joy in Mudville, much else of the world joined in a psychic conga line Saturday, fireworks shooting out of their ears.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Imagine no conga line of traffic leading to or from a resort.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Pitcher Aníbal Sánchez led the team in a conga line around the clubhouse, blowing a whistle to keep everyone up to tempo.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The conga line at the bottleneck was a large group that had been traveling together, and not a queue of disparate teams trying to reach the top.
    Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
  • Chabot is seeking his 12th term, and the Westwood resident has fended off a conga line of Democrats in his career.
    Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Turn on some music and form a conga line through the house, or listen to an entertaining podcast.
    Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Then the Bugs Bunny cartoon, featuring a conga line of base hits, happened.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
  • There's crazy outfits, decadent food, and even a conga line at one point (so, again, just like every Jonas holiday?).
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2019
  • We’re trapped in a conga line of tourists, each group with its own guide who’s holding their smartphones, taking Instagram-worthy shots.
    Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 6 July 2020
  • Taken together, these factors led the researchers to speculate that the trilobites had died in the midst of their ill-fated conga line.
    Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 17 Oct. 2019
  • For the video, NCT 127 kicked things off, literally and figurately, by forming a conga line and then doing the wave.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 14 May 2019
  • Instead, there’s a long conga line of cars snaking through downtown, stopping here for a Maria’s Tortilla, there for a chicken on a stick, somewhere else, perhaps, for a cold brew.
    Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 9 July 2020
  • With repeated throws to first, batters stepping out of the box ad nauseum, and mound visits for pitching changes like a conga line.
    Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Social trails have disappeared, as has the perpetual conga line, and the wildlife has returned.
    Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Allow the Taco Bell wizards to explain: The chalupa on one end of this conga line is draped in nacho cheese, while the opposite pole contains a creamy chipotle sauce.
    Emily Heil, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The performance closed with the musician — known for her onstage stunts — joining her dancers for a show-stopping conga line as the crowd stood up for a standing ovation.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Shawn was also seen enjoying the party in the background of one of Camila's Instagram story videos as a conga line passed by him.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Mar. 2020
  • After dinner, the couple cut their wedding cake early, followed by an impromptu conga line around the pool, sparklers in hand.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019
  • The night featured an array of guest singers, audience dignitaries doing a conga line down the aisles, followed by a balloon drop.
    oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2019
  • This was a jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing conga line of events too ludicrous for even the most brazen Hollywood script scribblers.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023

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