How to Use bongo in a Sentence

bongo

noun

• The mountain bongo is a rare antelope known for its brown skin and distinct white stripes.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• Frannie is an eastern or mountain bongo, which is one of the largest species of forest antelopes.
  — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
• Hence Brando with his bongos, Day-Lewis with his cobbling.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• The Eastern bongos are only found in mountain forests in central Kenya.
  — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 11 May 2026
• The mountain bongo has become the ghost of the forest, hard to spot amid the dense shrubs due to its ability to camouflage.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• Congas, bongos, and a Creole conch shell sit alongside guitar, keyboards, and horns.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 18 May 2026
• Happy anniversary to that nude bongo-playing sesh.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
• The bongos are shy and can camouflage despite their distinct white stripes, and these attributes are critical for their survival in the wild.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• Frannie’s large ears are an evolutionary adaptation that helps bongos have sharp hearing.
  — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
• And if all that's not enough for you, dig Jack Lemmon playing bongos as Gillian's hipster warlock brother.
  — Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
• Zoo officials encouraged the community to drop by and visit the bongos and their newborn.
  — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 11 May 2026
• The video cuts to Camila, who reads the report outloud as Matthew drums on the bongo and offers his commentary on the report.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
• The Denver Zoo is celebrating its most recent addition, a bongo born last week.
  — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 11 May 2026
• Moreira is a defining voice in jazz percussion, proficient at instruments ranging from the tambourine to the bongos.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2025
• Murray spent much of the show out of the spotlight playing bongos, cowbell, shakers and wind chimes while his band members sang and brought the heat with soulful guitar solos and funky sax.
  — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
• The conservatory cannot accept pianos, organs, kazoos, recorders, hand drums, cajons, frame drums, congas or bongos this year.
  — Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• The bongo population dwindled after thousands of them died in disease outbreaks in the 1960s.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• On that track and others on the album, Scott-Heron’s only musical accompaniment was a conga and bongo drums.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Mar. 2026
• The crowd then went absolutely bongos when newcomer Micah Parsons notched his first sack as a Packer in the closing minute.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• The accordion and percussive instruments like bongos, congas, timbales, cowbells and shakers form reggaeton beats and dancey tempos.
  — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
• His most fulfilling moment was when the fourth calf was born in the wild last year, an indication that the bongos are thriving in their native habitat and that their population will certainly increase.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• There was an impromptu guitar and bongo duet in the tent of the Baltimore streetwear line Love More Bmore, where the owners entertained the crowd and themselves between sales.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2026
• Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance The zoo's new bongo calf is one of several recent additions.
  — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 11 May 2026
• The Air Force is also seeking out 31 other vehicles, including sedans and bongo trucks, to similarly likely use as missile targets.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
• Almost 26 years ago to the day, Matthew McConaughey was part of a now-infamous incident involving the bongos, the police, and zero clothing.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
• The last wild bongo was spotted in the Mount Kenya forest in 1994 before the conservancy reintroduced the first 10 bongos to the wild in 2022.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• Last week, the conservancy imported a new batch of four male bongos from the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria though the Czech Republic.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• Andrew Mulani, the bongo program assistant at the conservancy, said the bongos are monitored for months before being reintroduced into the wild to ensure that the shyest ones are selected because docile animals would fall easily to predators.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026
• José Ángel Medina’s Patrulla 81 fuses its signature melodeon, tuba and charcheta with bongos, acoustic drums, guitars, and piano to infuse the song with heightened intensity.
  — Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• With fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, a conservancy based in Kenya is breeding them and slowly reintroducing them into the wild, with a target of 750 wild bongos by 2050.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2026