How to Use tango in a Sentence

tango

1 of 2 noun

• The band played a tango.
• And this is not their first tango.
  — Brian Martin, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
• The duo opened their tango with a fiery kiss and danced up a storm.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• Martín likens tango to jazz because both have many sub-genres.
  — Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2021
• Jennifer asked Ma to play a song so the couple could dance the tango.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• For their insta dance, the pair were happy to choose the tango.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
• The star spins much slower than the planet though, so the tidal tango plays out in reverse.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
• What used to be a tango between the doctor and patient is now a troika.
  — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 31 Oct. 2019
• This tropical tango has a chance to play out on a much larger scale this weekend.
  — Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
• The music has a tempo of a tango − like these guys should be tangoing, right?
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
• Gans stated that sources usually lead the tango.
  — Florian Wintterlin, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
• The couple has been learning tango together for about three years.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2021
• An elderly couple is next to a mustachioed man who could be a tango singer.
  — Mariana Enriquez october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
• 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
• His set covered a wide range of genres, from tango to jazz and EDM.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
• The famous wit adds a lot to a story that’s partly an earnest tango with grief, and partly an act of gossip.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
• That tango between the sweet and woody notes brought out the rich sensations of honey, chocolate and nougat.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 May 2022
• Downstairs, El Cabaret presents a sultry tango show in the red velvet bar.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2021
• That felt like a tango-fusion arena tour performance.
  — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 26 Nov. 2025
• 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
• Richard Quest visits Buenos Aires in the latest episode, home of the tango.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Alan Bersten performed the tango for their first dance, scoring a 28 out of 40.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2021
• The song is a tango, one of the lighter and more celebratory flamenco forms.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
• The tango piece is a world premiere, putting a ballet spin on the Argentinian dance style.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2023
• The sparkling heels of the cellist move so slightly, as if in a restrained, secret tango keeping time with her cello.
  — James Florio, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
• Thus, the latter includes a bolero, a tango, a Christmas carol, a patter song and a waltz.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The Miz and his partner, pro Witney Carson, hit the floor for the tango.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 3 Oct. 2021
• The club used to host hundreds of tango dancers between Wednesday and Sunday.
  — Time, 15 June 2021

tango

2 of 2 verb

• He's trying to learn how to tango.
• Demand for brisket is at an all-time high and for every bovine, there are only two to tango.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2023
• Natalia teaches him how to tango.
  — Ilya Kaminsky august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
• The music has a tempo of a tango − like these guys should be tangoing, right?
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
• The two will tango throughout the evening before setting above the western horizon around midnight.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
• Eliminating even more discomfort by only having one cord to tango with is a win for me.
  — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2026
• Eliminating even more discomfort by only having one cord to tango with is a win for me.
  — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
• Democrats have been as willing as Republicans to tango with the rent-reaping lounge lizards.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• From line dancing to tango to swing, Denver’s dance halls offer something for every groove.
  — Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2025
• The only thing that matters in sport is to be the last competitor standing, especially when there are just two to tango.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The Roadster won’t have a chance to tango with Earth until its first close encounter in 2091.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2018
• Kahneman argues for collaboration, but that takes two to tango, and a willingness to learn the steps.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• But who would want to tango with Legere, the wireless industry’s rock-star CEO?
  — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017
• 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
• 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
• If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then interviewing a musician can be like trying to tango with a block of concrete.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• Oakland baseball almost always tangoed with tension between supporters and ownership—but not with players.
  — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Yesterday’s Boeing purchases might have been a not-so-subtle reminder to the EU and Airbus that two can tango at the tariff game.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Dance instructor David DuVal most recently taught samba and tango there on Thursday morning.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
• Miles above the Earth, two bands of fast-moving air – the polar jet stream and the stratospheric polar vortex – sometimes tango together to influence weather in the northern hemisphere.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
• During this promenade à deux, both scorpions face one another, pincers interlocked, and tango to and fro across the savanna, occasionally even interlocking mouthparts in a sort of scorpion kiss.
  — Bradley Allf, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2021
• Some Russians did, however, including fit men who watched from the bar as a relative of the bride — a young woman who sang a touching, traditional Russian song — danced emphatically to tango music.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• The colorful story of a woman tangoing her way through the grieving process after her husband abruptly dies is set in Tokyo’s ballroom dancing scene, with characters seamlessly switching between speaking English, Spanish, and Japanese.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
• Debicki's character brings up the events of the first movie, wherein Cliff and Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton — the Hollywood actor Cliff doubled for on screen — tangoed with the Manson Family.
  — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
• My bucket-list trips include learning to tango in Buenos Aires, going on safari in Botswana (and staying at ever-gorgeous Xigera), and riding the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (a dream that, to my unbelievable privilege, recently became a reality).
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2024