Example sentences for: calypso

How can you use “calypso” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In July, it is the major focus of the great West Indian Festival of Caribana, celebrating those other islands’ extravagant costumes and music, featuring steel band, calypso, and reggae.

  • Local clubs and stage shows reflect such Bermudian and Caribbean traditions as steelband music, calypso, goombay, reggae, and limbo dancing, among others.

  • Rosemary Clooney, revisiting "Mambo Italiano" for a recent autobiographical album, explains in the liner notes how much she loathes all her early hits--"Come On-a My House" (Armenian novelty song), "Who Don Mon Man" (calypso novelty song), "Botch-a Me" (botched novelty song).

  • The very next year, Wallace Deen disbanded the nation; rescinded most of his father's teachings; became an observant Sunni Muslim; and set up a new organization, which he still leads, the World Community of al-Islam . Soon after, Farrakhan , a Nation of Islam stalwart and former calypso singer, re-established the nation in line with its original tenets.

  • With a $43 million budget, it is, minute for minute, the most expensive TV show ever, and also features a shocking amount of sex--as Odysseus, Armand Assante sleeps with Penelope (Greta Scacchi), Circe (Bernadette Peters), and Calypso (Vanessa Williams).


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