How to Use chicha in a Sentence

chicha

noun

• Teenage girls, chosen by local nobles, were sent away to live in seclusion at the aqllawasai to weave cloth, brew chicha, and prepare food for ritual feasts.
  — ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
• Four of the mummified corpses also tested positive for alcohol, which likely came from drinking chicha, a beer made out of maize.
  — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
• Pancho, on the other hand, insists that chicha is specifically Tropical Andina, a sub-genre that mixes Colombian cumbia with Andean folkloric music, known as huayno.
  — NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
• The term chicha refers to a style of cumbia, a popular Colombian music genre, that was adapted and transformed in Peru in the 1960s and ’70s, incorporating electric guitars, synthesizers, and elements of rock.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 4 May 2026
• Chicha peaked in the '80s as Lorenzo Palacios Quispe, known as Chacalón or El Faraón de la Cumbia, and Los Shapis, an Andean band from Huancayo, brought chicha to the masses.
  — NPR, 10 Oct. 2025