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How to use flamenco in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Flamenco means a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain. Example: “It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.”

Examples of flamenco by meaning

nounA genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.

  • It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian
  • Among the dancers, who joined in periodically, the outlier wasn’t the Spanish flamenco dancer, Jesús Carmona (in town for the Flamenco Festival at City Center), so much as the New York salsero, Eddie Torres Jr.2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09...

nounA song or dance performed in such a style.

  • La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3

verbTo dance flamenco.

  • "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to.2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212
  • Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 129

More sentences with flamenco

  • There’s no denying that flamenco guitar with its machine-gun speed picking riffs and dizzying helicopter-like ‘rasgueo’ hand strums is physically punishing.2011 March 14, Ciaran Giles, “Spaniards eat up Cdn guitarist; Flamenco guitar traditionally an area dominated by men”, in Trail Times…. From the entry rasgueo
  • But passages of traditionalist flamenco, with Mr.2007 June 30, Jon Pareles, “Far Beyond Flamenco, a Zest for Rhythms (and Politics)”, in New York Times. From the entry handclapping
  • The jaleo is a necessary and intricate component of flamenco.2005, D. E. Pohren, The Art of Flamenco, Bold Strummer Limited, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry jaleo
  • Me: But all you see in the Japanese media much of the time are obasans rushing to bargains, gossiping, taking flamenco lessons.2011, Yuri Kageyama, The New and Selected Yuri: Writing From Peeling Till Now, Ishmael Reed Publishing Company/Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 107–108. From the entry obasan
  • The nonpurist result is world-music fusion, linking the Central American parranda and punta to African and Latin pop, flamenco, even electric blues.2008 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Soft and Tough, and a Star in the Trunk”, in New York Times. From the entry parranda
  • I, Susan, remember dressing exotically, eating organic foods, and exploring the duende of deep flamenco passion, playing the guitar on hilltops on moonful nights.2008, Susan Zwinger, Ann Zwinger, “Learning Nature Through the Senses”, in Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land, University of…. From the entry moonful
  • They are examples of a new generation of flamenco fashion that is pushing the limits of tradition and causing a stir in the conservative circles of Andalucía.2007 February 21, Dale Fuchs, “Flamenco fashions with runway flair […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Andalucía
  • And Carmen Cortés, fast approaching divadom, will offer examples of Gypsy flamenco puro in a program on Thursday with the flamenco guitarist Gerardo Núñez and his quintet.2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry divadom

Meaning of flamenco

  1. noun A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
  2. noun A song or dance performed in such a style.
  3. verb To dance flamenco.

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Questions about flamenco in a sentence

How do you use flamenco in a sentence?
Flamenco is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.”
What is a short sentence with flamenco?
“"Can you flamenco?" "If I have to.”
What does flamenco mean?
Flamenco means a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.

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