How To Use Rhumb In A Sentence
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The ‘rhumb’ lines that criss-cross the map are designed to aid compass bearings, allowing navigators to sail reasonably accurate courses.
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Throughout the room, neon signs flash to announce the upcoming dance style: fox trot, triple swing, mambo, cha cha, tango, waltz, rock 'n' roll and rhumba.
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The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
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The Forester did a quick steel-crunching rhumba motion, the air bag engulfed Harry, and then the car settled.
VAPOR TRAIL
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The ‘rhumb’ lines that criss-cross the map are designed to aid compass bearings, allowing navigators to sail reasonably accurate courses.

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Mercator also produced the first globe to have rhumb lines (1541), based on his observation that a ship sailing towards the same point of the compass would follow a curve called a loxodrome (also called a rhumb line or spherical helix).
Mercator, Gerardus
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The foxtrot is still danced every night of the week in hundreds of modern sequence dance clubs around the country, along with the waltz, quickstep, tango, rhumba, cha cha, jive, mambo, salsa, saunter, blues, swing and so on.
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The workouts here each feature one Latin dance style -- cha-cha, salsa, merengue, samba or rhumba.
Do a little dance: Exercise DVDs make their moves
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The ‘rhumb’ lines that criss-cross the map are designed to aid compass bearings, allowing navigators to sail reasonably accurate courses.
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Wesley appraised Ted's thick lips as they vibrated, like two fat, pink molluscs performing a shifty rhumba.
BEHINDLINGS
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Sure, you could rhumba with a Martini in one hand, but you need the right spirit - either rum or pisco - to get into the spirit and beat of Latin music and culture.
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The ‘rhumb’ lines that criss-cross the map are designed to aid compass bearings, allowing navigators to sail reasonably accurate courses.
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All the while, I'd be serenaded by the musicians in the street, who continue the long-standing tradition that has given the world rhumba, mambo, and son.
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A new globe which he produced in 1541 was the first to have rhumb lines shown on it.
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The project has formed a band called Raw Energy which fuses reggae, African rhythm, calypso, rhumba and rock.
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I like the rhumba, but the tango romantica is not an easy dance.
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The obscure concepts of the rhumb line, the loxodrome, and spherical trigonometry were also beyond their grasp.
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The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
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A little like rhumba, Kokoliko has for some reason come to enjoy a lot of airplay on radio.
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For the past ten hours Hornblower had overseen the changing of course from the larboard to the starboard tack, seeking to gain the latitude of Gibraltar, then sail straight in on a rhumb line.
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‘It has become a real tactical dual as to whether you'd go straight down the rhumb line (most direct route) or you go wide,’ Peter Campbell from Sydney's Cruising Yacht Club said.
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The 11-track album has some of the smooth rhumba songs that brings out the musical and singing prowess of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's most celebrated musical ensembles.
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Dinah danced with Bobby again, and then Jim, and then Old Sam, who had patented a kind of schottische-rhumba combination that was the dread of every woman in the Park.
A Grave Denied
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Archipelago is a rhumba that was later reworked into the composer's Second Symphony as its third movement.
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The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
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The foxtrot is still danced every night of the week in hundreds of modern sequence dance clubs around the country, along with the waltz, quickstep, tango, rhumba, cha cha, jive, mambo, salsa, saunter, blues, swing and so on.
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Sure, you could rhumba with a Martini in one hand, but you need the right spirit - either rum or pisco - to get into the spirit and beat of Latin music and culture.
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Other influences on popular music include church music, gospel, Zairean rhumba, and South African mbaqanga and mbube.
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Spike wrote: ‘We present a very colourful act in rhumba costume and our numbers comprise sambas, beguines, rhumbas etc.’
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O'Dougherty likes Latin dances like the rhumba and O'Connor enjoys the tango romantica.
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Dances like the samba, rhumba, cha-cha, and mambo were the sexiest things that white people were allowed to do until the twist came along, and Cugie was always there to fill the bill.
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In the documentary Born to be Wild he dances a rhumba in the streets of his native Cuba.
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The project has formed a band which fuses reggae, African rhythm, calypso, rhumba and rock.
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The workouts here each feature one Latin dance style -- cha-cha, salsa, merengue, samba or rhumba.
Do a little dance: Exercise DVDs make their moves
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Well, technically, I could only say that the Cuban mambo and the Jive were our best dances, because I hadn't learnt the Cha Cha or the Box Rhumba during the somewhat dramatic school dance classes.
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Dances like the samba, rhumba, cha-cha, and mambo were the sexiest things that white people were allowed to do until the twist came along.
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So, at first, we saw nothing unusual in his bonce doing the rhumba on top of his neck.
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Finally, Millepied, while brilliant in many places, simply misses the point of the third sailor's rhumba reducing it to mechanical sinuosity, and not at all sexy.
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I rhumba with Rita, Rachael sambas with Cecile, and together we awkwardly tango.
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It has a unique rhumba sound that calls for a performance rather than just singing.
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African rhythms were inserted into popular music, and the Eurocuban dances ‘danza’ and ‘contra-danza’ and the Afrocuban dances ‘son’ and rhumba became popular.
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She not only makes you believe she can sing, she teleports you around the world through the magic of song; with each number, you believe you're sitting under Paris skies, or snuggling beneath a wet palm tree on a rainy night in Rio, or dancing the rhumba in Havana to the accompaniment of an awkward sousaphonist.
An All-Singing (and Swinging) Week
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The foxtrot is still danced every night of the week in hundreds of modern sequence dance clubs around the country, along with the waltz, tango, rhumba, cha cha, mambo, salsa, swing and so on.
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Looking on from my now four-year-old expertise, I watch with pride the basic steps of swing, cha-cha, rhumba, waltz, tango and other dances, and I feel like a new mother whose baby is learning to walk.
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Other influences on popular music include church music, gospel, Zairean rhumba, and South African mbaqanga and mbube.
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Then, we'll sail on a rhumb line straight in and hope the only ships we meet are ours.