fandango

How To Use fandango In A Sentence

• Think of castanets, foot stamping, tambourines and bright silk costumes and you have a picture of the fandango, a sexually provocative, very popular, Spanish dance.
• Early next morning, I left them playing their "fandango" play. John Andrew Jackson. The Experience of a Slave inSouth Carolina.
• We have pre-published books, ready to walk, talk and do the fandango several months before they actually hit the bookstores.
• Now Mike himself was a sad musician, and the sound of him fandangoin 'uncertainly up and down the fretful spine of that instrument was a tribulation I'd put up with on account of friendship, pure and simple, but when that discord-lovin' lady cliff-dweller set all evenin 'in our tent and scraped snake-dances out of them catguts with a fish-bone, I pulled my freight and laid out in the moonlight with the dogs. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
• I find in the music of the _Fandango_, written under one bar, _Salida_, which signifies _going out_; it is where the woman is to part a little from her partner, and to move slowly by herself; and I suppose it was at _that bar_ the lady was so overcome, as to determine not to return. A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2)
• As Beryl remarked afterwards, if only she'd had her castanets with her she'd have been rattling away and dancing a fandango.
• Gamins, snappy in pinstripe suits and cross-culture printed silk, dress up for the evening like gypsies in a dizzy fandango of swirling, hand-painted silk ruffled skirts.
• There is one thing that I think I shall regret leaving myself, and that is, the fandango and the two or three pretty senoritas one has been in the habit of meeting at it almost every night. California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts
• This kist makes me crazy especially since fandango has it advertised that they are selling the tickets. Twilight Lexicon » Eclipse Pre-Sale Tickets This Week!
• I looked all around for the fandango dancer to appear but she kept well clear.