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How to use tango in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Tango means a standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango. Example: “I can't do it by myself, and neither can you – it takes two to tango.”

Examples of tango by meaning

verbTo mingle or interact (with each other).

  • Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.2013, Kathy Casey, D'Lish Deviled Eggs, page 67

nounA target; an enemy.

  • The two tangoes running toward the carnage at the prison door dropped simultaneously, dead in their tracks.2005, Charles W. Sasser, Detachment Delta: Operation Aces Wild, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370
  • It'll be a two-hour trip to the tango, flying tea-kettle.2015 November 23, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, “Dulcinea”, in The Expanse, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ade Nygaard (Kristen Hager)
  • "One tango dead and Marcus is down, John."2017, Beth Rhodes, Strike Zone, →ISBN, page 210

More sentences with tango

  • I can't do it by myself, and neither can you – it takes two to tango.From the entry it takes two to tango
  • I can never fly my fighter again. It is tango uniform.From the entry tango uniform
  • He started it! Well, it takes two to tango.From the entry it takes two to tango
  • He wasn't in the mood to tango.From the entry in the mood
  • Have you ever danced the tango?From the entry dance
  • Héctor del Curto plays the bandoneón, an accordionlike instrument heard in the tangos of his native Argentina.2009 February 6, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry accordionlike
  • Schwarzenegger was long past his professional bodybuilding days when he and Carrere shot the tango scene, but he wasn’t a twig.2022 July 19, Jason Rossi, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Most Dangerous Mistake on ‘True Lies’: ‘It Would Have Put Us Back 30 Days in the…. From the entry twig
  • Twenty-first-century electronic tango is referred to as neotango in the United States, tango fusion in Argentina, and tecnotango in France.[2019, Janet Sturman, editor, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications, →ISBN. From the entry neotango
  • The disc jockey, Hernan Brizuela, 33, was playing sets, or tandas, of Argentine tangos: fast, medium, then slow.2007 August 25, Glenn Collins, “Tangoing Cheek to Cheek for 3 Minutes in the Park”, in New York Times. From the entry tanda
  • Where do these arguments leave tango women, with their hetero- and gynosexual interests and practices and their possible gynosocial bondings?1994, Marta Savigliano, Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. From the entry gynosexual
  • He spent whole days and nights on his knees praying, yet he could have won Strictly Come Dancing with his virtuoso Brazilian tango, the maxixe.2016 November, Donald Rayfield, “The Monk behind the Myth”, in Literary Review. From the entry maxixe
  • Along the way, he has built some fascinating bridges between jazz, pop, classical music and the chacareras and tangos of his native Argentina.2007 February 17, Nate Chinen, “A Wide World of Sound With an Argentine Beat”, in New York Times. From the entry chacarera
  • Sadson got through, he feel quite puffed but very enjoyable and say that, if youngly men would dance with preachers, tango would seem quite sinless.1916, Good Housekeeping, volumes 62-63. From the entry youngly
  • It is unavoidable that culture and biology dance together, sometimes in a graceful and seamless tango and at other times a clutchy foxtrot, stepping on each other's toes.2016, Molly K. Zuckerman, Debra L. Martin, New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology, page 43. From the entry clutchy

Meaning of tango

  1. noun A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
  2. noun A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
  3. noun A piece of music suited to such a dance.

Full definition of tango

Questions about tango in a sentence

How do you use tango in a sentence?
Tango is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I can't do it by myself, and neither can you – it takes two to tango.”
What is a short sentence with tango?
“Have you ever danced the tango?”
What does tango mean?
Tango means a standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tango (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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