(n.) A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
(n.) A ball or general dance, as in Mexico.
Example Sentences:
(1) American retailer Fandango said JJ Abrams’s film sold more than eight times as many tickets on its first day of release – Monday – as the previous record holder, 2012’s The Hunger Games.
(2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – six things we learned from the new trailer Read more American retailer Fandango said JJ Abrams’ film sold more than eight times as many tickets on its first day of release – Monday – as the previous record holder, 2012’s The Hunger Games.
(3) Here's Lol Fandango: "How can Immobile be picked for Italy when he played number 10 for England already?"
(4) And if the making of Loveless was a song and dance, then the protracted process that led to its follow-up was a fully fledged fandango.
(5) This week's selection features Savages, Sepalcure and Coyote Clean Up Details here Watch and listen Music Weekly podcast: Coachella festival and Houndmouth Little Bear perform The Few and Far Between at Other Voices 2013 Album stream: The Phoenix Foundation – Fandango London Grammar's live performance of Wasting My Young Years John Grant performs Marz live at Other Voices The Stone Roses: Made of Stone – watch the trailer for Shane Meadows's documentary New music: Laura Marling – Master Hunter Further reading Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me' Alison Moyet: 'I smashed all my gold discs.
(6) For parents who grew up with Star Wars toys, this is an incredible bonding experience,” said Erik Davis, managing editor of Fandango and father of two.
(7) 2) Are there any English readers secretly hoping that Fabio Capello's team go out after grinding another dull draw today, so we can all forget about the grim fandango of the No Surrender brigade, St George bowler hats, ridiculous front page tabloid covers and all sorts of other England-related embarrassments for a couple of years?
(8) While Mourinho was at great pains to avoid getting tangled up in another conspiracy fandango so early in the season, in the wider analysis Chelsea sent out mixed messages here.
(9) Records were broken on both sides of the Atlantic , with the US retailer Fandango reporting advance ticket sales eight times higher than for any other film on its first day of release, and the studio Disney claiming that more than 200,000 tickets were sold in 24 hours in the UK.
(10) The waitress looks to me to be too scared to come and take it away I accept, or at least I stop arguing, that whatever a woman's economic agency and position in society, she should still make a big fandango about her sexual playfulness and exquisite taste in shoes.
(11) And in the current climate, after the Kids Company fandango , the stakes seem too high for that to be the case.
Farrago
Definition:
(n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a new book just published called So Far, So Bad , written well before the Closer farrago, French journalist Cécile Amar, quotes Trierweiler confessing that "François has no emotion".
(2) The truth is that Britain's defence strategy has become a farrago of dogmas, traditions, maxims and cliches, most of them born of the second world war, the cold war and Tony Blair's fixation with fighting Muslims.
(3) The answer does not lie in false techno-fixes or the faux-democratic farrago of the government-business funded Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef .
(4) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
(5) These Super Sunday-ish collisions are so often presented in a farrago of swirling overstatement – seasons defined, destiny shaped, lives ruined, civilisations decimated – but Wenger will take encouragement from this performance.
(6) Actually, I lied – that is not the weirdest thing about this whole farrago.
(7) It is the dance up on the stage, which looks a farrago, that seems the distraction.
(8) From a farrago of post-feminist disdain, that last judgment was the most eccentric of all.
(9) The Death Star - the set of next #StarWars film at @PinewoodStudios to see benefits of film tax credits August 13, 2015 There’s good and bad news about the spin-offs Kennedy revealed to EW that Disney-owned Lucasfilm are still working on the ‘anthology’ film, rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett, the film from which Josh Trank was unceremoniously dumped in April at the height of the whole Fantastic Four farrago.
(10) Frankly, when he was reappointed 18 months ago this World Cup was turning into a nightmare for the host nation, a farrago of structural problems, vertiginous anxiety and a team who had slipped to 22nd in the Fifa rankings.
(11) Further evidence that the Spaniard is unaffected by the Real Madrid transfer farrago came when Patrick van Anholt raced clear.
(12) But I just couldn't do it; I got stuck, wrote this farrago of a play.
(13) The biography of Mr Nuttall that has appeared at times on his website appears to be a complex farrago of exaggerations, half-truths and untruths that have unravelled as his run for the vacant Stoke-on-Trent Central seat has put him under more scrutiny than usual.
(14) Every last one of them was a farrago of wonkishness, insincerity, and cliche, polemical half-truths and bits of old stump speeches, mashed-up press releases and policy statements, reheated for popular consumption in some of the dullest American prose imaginable.
(15) I suspect the non-dom farrago is also a moral issue and the fact that 115 non-doms pay £9bn in income tax – and the government could lose serious money – doesn’t matter.
(16) Supporters of The Weinstein Company point out that the production company had dropped the earlier copyright claim prior to the farrago surrounding The Butler .
(17) What a farrago of self-regarding, self-congratulatory self-exculpation it was!
(18) Beyond the Farage farragos, one Demetri Marchessini, a Ukip donor, paid for an advert in the Telegraph to announce his abhorrence of homosexuality.
(19) The answer is Mail Online , an inspired farrago of rolling clickbait that has been a runaway commercial success for its corporate parent ever since it was launched.
(20) The farrago Trump has created on healthcare is consequential and shameful.