How to Use cha-cha in a Sentence

cha-cha

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• Undergraduates are rushing to sign up for his classes in such old-timey dances as waltz, tango, swing, salsa, cha-cha and two step.
  — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
• The rumba, the cha-cha and the tango help bring a widow out of mourning in this surprisingly buoyant, unsentimental film about grief.
  — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Technically speaking, Amber turns in a pretty stellar week-one cha-cha, and the notes from the judges are mostly about finesse and refinement.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
• The offense could've started collectively hitting the cha-cha for 30 straight plays, and the Broncos would've been fine on Monday.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
• The duo earned eight perfect scores throughout the competition, culminating in a fusion of the cha-cha and Argentine tango for their final dance.
  — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
• In addition to a freestyle dance performed with other couples, Graziadei and partner Jenna Johnson performed a cha-cha as part of a redemption dance.
  — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
• Garth and her partner, Hough, earned a perfect score of 30 for their cha-cha-cha, but were eliminated just one day later, in the show's semi-finals, after falling short in the viewer votes.
  — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
• Once again, when Daniella realizes how hard some cha-cha moves might be for Ezra to actually do — the chasses and hip action especially — the two figure out how to make the dance work for him.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
• Beyond his signature and progressive Reparto sound, the studied musician also experiments with funk, cha-cha-cha, R&B, and pop ballads.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
• Hank claims to be at peace with his decision even in the face of Buck’s four-wheel-drive founders’ gifts and the ecstatic cha-cha-chinging of Dale (and Nolan Ryan), but never have Hank’s slow-and-steady tendencies seemed more out of step with the times.
  — Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
• After dancing a promising cha-cha on week 1, Bersten and his season 35 partner, Giada De Laurentiis, found themselves in the bottom three following a disappointing salsa.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
• As contestants performed dances like the salsa and the cha-cha onscreen, PEOPLE was inside the ballroom to witness all of the moments the camera didn't catch, including the sweet shows of support from the stars' friends and family in the audience.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
• During the first week of season 35 of Dancing with the Stars, celebrity contestant Guillermo Rodriguez made headlines with one of the lowest scores in the show’s history after dancing the cha-cha with partner Witney Carson.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2026
• The elimination came after Leavitt and Ballas performed the cha-cha-cha to Prince’s ‘1999’ and the Viennese waltz to ‘Slow Love’, each dance earning a score of 29 out of 30.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
• During the show's Viral Hits Night, figure skater and Olympic Gold Medalist Amber Glenn performed a powerful tango, while track and field star and Paralympic Gold Medalist Ezra Frech delivered a showstopping cha-cha.
  — Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026