Sentence examples for the bomba from inspiring English sources
noun
A form of traditional drumming, and an associated form of dance, from Puerto Rico
The bomba resembles the Cuban rumba in its spatial pattern.
The bomba musicians set up in vacant lots or in townspeople's front yards.
In many respects the bomba is similar to the Cuban columbia, except that the bomba is danced by both men and women, and dancers face the subidor with which they are conversing.
His piece, "Iron Jungle," with Roberto Cepeda as a guest percussionist on the bomba drum, was relentlessly fast and driving.
If you are hungry for dessert, I recommend the bomba tartuffo, a ball of chocolate and vanilla ice cream with a hard chocolate shell.
The more equally matched in skill that the drummer and dancer are, the more intricate and satisfying the bomba will be.
I read, too, the serial sets produced regularly by story factories that provided such series as the Hardy Boys, Bomba the Jungle Boy, The Boy Allies and for girls, Nancy Drew, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and numerous others.
It was this sobering fact that inspired the Bombas founders to start their company in 2013.
The Bombas Gens factory, an important example of industrial art deco, was gutted by fire in 2014 but is set to reopen in 2017 as an arts centre.
Another host, Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, said the price point for socks was too low to justify the $4 million valuation the Bombas founders were seeking.
After dozens of iterations, the Bombas founders developed a sock with several new features: a seamless toe, a cushioned foot bed, an arch support system, elastic that keeps long socks up and blister tabs on the backs of ankle socks.
