How to Use tango in a Sentence

tango

1 of 2 noun

• The band played a tango.
• The duo opened their tango with a fiery kiss and danced up a storm.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• Here are the deets. 2 SEE: Two beloved dance troupes, plus tango!
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Alyson's tango earned her a 19 from the judges while Jamie Lynn's cha-cha earned her a 16.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2023
• The French brought tango to Vietnam in the ’30s, and the dance style also became a hit in Japan.
  — Cecilia Lei, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
• Jennifer asked Ma to play a song so the couple could dance the tango.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Richard Quest visits Buenos Aires in the latest episode, home of the tango.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
• The Miz and his partner, pro Witney Carson, hit the floor for the tango.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 3 Oct. 2021
• Alan Bersten performed the tango for their first dance, scoring a 28 out of 40.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2021
• Salsa, bachata and tango tunes will echo in the gallery.
  — Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2020
• The star spins much slower than the planet though, so the tidal tango plays out in reverse.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
• The pair had earned 36 out of 40 for their tango routine based on The Vampire Diaries.
  — Gabrielle Duncan, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Then, at more than the halfway point, the man gets up and begins to perform the tango with two women at the bar.
  — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• The two-course tango involves two rooms, and two courses.
  — Stefanie Groner, Glamour, 24 Dec. 2020
• Gabby Windey and Val Chmerkovskiy also impressed the judges with their tango and earned a 40.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022
• Our first dance is tango and it’s no hip movements or stuff that I’m used to, so shoutout to all ballroom dancers.
  — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Which brings us to the point: How do the corporations and startups tango?
  — Shaloo Garg, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• What used to be a tango between the doctor and patient is now a troika.
  — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 31 Oct. 2019
• The quartet will play his two tango pieces while on tour in Buenos Aires and Córdoba.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Bergoglio teaches Benedict to dance the tango, the two watch a World Cup match together and the credits roll.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
• Letting Sean Spicer tango onto prime time this fall is not the largest disgrace of all time.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• Downstairs, El Cabaret presents a sultry tango show in the red velvet bar.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2021
• But just a few months before his 100th birthday, his friends gave him a plane ticket to the birthplace of tango.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• Alan Bersten stepped in to dance an Argentine tango with the Bachelorette star, which earned high praise from the judges.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• Martín likens tango to jazz because both have many sub-genres.
  — Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2021
• Smooth and sultry were the names of the game for a night of classic ballroom routines, like foxtrots, a quickstep, and a tango.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Mine was a tango, a commedia dell’arte pantomime that carried us to that second-place trophy sitting on my bookshelf.
  — Betty Fussell, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
• For their insta dance, the pair were happy to choose the tango.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
• That felt like a tango-fusion arena tour performance.
  — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 26 Nov. 2025

tango

2 of 2 verb

• He's trying to learn how to tango.
• West and Oconomowoc will tango Oct. 28 with a state berth on the line in Watertown.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017
• The Roadster won’t have a chance to tango with Earth until its first close encounter in 2091.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2018
• But who would want to tango with Legere, the wireless industry’s rock-star CEO?
  — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017
• Trades take two to tango and most trade-ups in this era of the NFL Draft center around getting franchise quarterback prospects.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 22 Apr. 2022
• But, as is the norm when Hollywood tangos with science, the science stumbled in translation to the screen.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2017
• Fall is prime time for deer-car collisions in the U.S. and in Kentucky, motorists are more than likely to tango with Bambi.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Democrats have been as willing as Republicans to tango with the rent-reaping lounge lizards.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• Laura and the possible Marco will not however be the first two storms to tango in the Gulf together.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Meanwhile, Greens pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm was all but matching Smoltz in excellence, though with pitches that tangoed more than darted.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• Dance instructor David DuVal most recently taught samba and tango there on Thursday morning.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
• Trump's simplistic desire to tango with Putin appears to be permanently on hold, thanks to the concrete realities of geopolitics.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• Dinner usually doesn’t start before 9 p.m., and afterward, people tango until sunrise.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• The music has a tempo of a tango − like these guys should be tangoing, right?
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
• Natalia teaches him how to tango.
  — Ilya Kaminsky august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025