How To Use Clap In A Sentence

How do you know when to clap the triple jumpers? Times, Sunday Times
Upon noticing the new appliance, he stomped his little feet and clapped with joy.
Aaewin asked without thinking, clapping her hands over her mouth after the words escaped.
Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
Presented with a series of tricky problems, the Scud decided to play safe and run like the clappers, and just belt the ball for all he was worth.

There was a loud clapping from the boys who were perched on the rail fence, but some of the girls were crying. Rainbow Valley
There was a strained silence for a while and then in the distance there was a clap of thunder.
[_CATTY sighs and groans, striking the back of one hand reiteratedly into the palm of the other -- rises -- beats the devil's tattoo as she stands -- then claps her hands again. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
I wonder whether any of the clapboard houses I wander past is the house where it happened, where All killed herself.
The stadium reverberated with claps as brave Marathas displayed their skills in the sport, where the men showcased their acrobatics on poles.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
On the clapometer scale it was somewhere between the closing credits of Countdown and a wet Thursday at Hove cricket ground. Radio catchup: The Doctor Who Prom and Cabin Pressure
She swallowed a humph, then nearly groaned aloud when, clapping her hands, Lady Hightham urged them to gather around for some music. ON A WICKED DAWN
Sure, there's a pretty popish synth line that could be easily translated into a mid-60's glock part, and there're handclaps, but the damn verse is one bar of four, one bar of three, one bar of four and repeat.
Maura let out a nervous guffaw before clapping her hand over her mouth again, keeping her giggles silent.
He raved, he cursed, he shook his fists in my face, and then suddenly a horrible spasm passed over his features, he clapped his hand to his side, and with a loud cry he fell in a heap at my feet.
When the police were leaving the women clapped and cheered. Times, Sunday Times
In the most telling moment the whole lot balance on elbows and heads, each clapping his feet together like trained seals. Times, Sunday Times
At the sound, the birds rise from their night places; they clap their wide, black wings and settle again.
The Question Time audience claps for anything that's motherhood and apple-pie as long as it's delivered punchily. Why Jenny Tonge Should be Abolished
We invariably travelled on some clapped-out smelly bus that made us nauseous with the diesel fumes.
People with no sense of rhythm try to clap along to the music.
He even had one or two on the other side of the House clapping him at the end of his presentation.
Of course, since astrology is all complete claptrap, this shouldn't concern me at all, should it?
The nursery teacher clapped her hands to attract the children's attention.
The audience clapped politely but without much enthusiasm.
This isn't situational realism, it's misogynist claptrap, the kind of stuff no one needs to see in the movies.
I had my first good bite, a two inch lift then the indicator dropping like the clappers on a slack line.
Approximately 20 guys, from young teenagers to 30-somethings take turns working out their uprocks, flares and headspins to yelps and handclaps of support.
Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power Springhaven
He was carrying his hand bell by its clapper, and he shifted his grip to the handle and began clanging.
The Democrats will still be expected to pay heed to national unity by clapping politely. Times, Sunday Times
This is as it should be, for the _Misses_ ought to have an equal chance with the _Masters_ -- at least so say we, -- _plaudite_, clap your little hands, and _valete_, good bye! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828
Like a streetcorner serenade, it's got all the oooh's, aaah's, handclaps and snaps of classic doo-wop, and yet it somehow remains brilliantly, unwaveringly faithful to the original.
THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
Don't believe a word of what he says. It's just a load of claptrap.
For example, following the lyric ‘thunder that roared out a warning,’ a thunderclap is heard on the track.
A clap of thunder echoes around the sky and an icy, howling wind picks up. The Sun
The New York Times said the show had all the hallmarks of quality broadcasting: laughter, tears, a man in a shiny suit and a clapometer. MR STARLIGHT
They engaged in some playful four-handed piano playing as the audience sang and clapped along with the musicians.
Each section features easily identifiable icons such as a clapperboard to indicate the locations for films and television sets, or a gold star to represent the birthplace of a celebrity to make the guide quick and simple to read.
We were told to keep our seats because the show wasn't over until ABBA sang and unbidden, the audience started clapping along happily, as a virtual mini-ABBA concert was performed at the end.
A bracket included with every piece is designed to allow the artwork to hang level on walls made of stone, stucco, clapboard, siding and brick.
Mother Clap's Molly House is a camp spectacle reminiscent of music hall and it has some shockingly funny one liners.
Birders can watch migratory species such as endangered clapper rails, dowitchers, and American avocets from the platform at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary.
We may be too old to tango, but my hand is extended to clap,’ he told him.
He's been a happy-clappy all his life. He accidentally sent me this email by mistake.
This will bring happiness...not happy-clappy happiness but ultimate, eternal happiness. We must pray for death
After 8 long years I found that he'd squandered all my hard-earned savings from the previous 8 years, put me in enormous debt and had given me the biggest dose of clap in the history of the world. Martin Lewis: "Bankrupt & Clap-Ridden": The Ultimate 'Dear Abbey' Letter From Jack-Ass America
I wonder who Nicola thinks she's fooling with this pious claptrap.
Big sodden bales sat in the small high-hedged fresh-cut fields, a pigeon clapped in the alders and misty rain filled a steel grey sky.
Young, zippy friends clap when they see awesome new garb and they change their look overnight. Times, Sunday Times
He clapped Bligh's arm, and then turned and hammered on the door.
Car and simulacrum sounder clapperboard sodomist use the myrmeleon to onwards rook alder and polypropenonitrile mwera to cut osteal pay flagellant. Rational Review
This color cartoon clipart picture shows a woman holding a slate for a movie set, ready to clap the bar shut; the slate has a number "2" written on it, for take two.
Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
His nightmare was based on once when his brakes nearly failed going along Clapham Common.
Her parents had been milliners in Clapham, just down the road, and had run a millinery and drapery shop.
Instantly, he let go of Sam, his free hand stilling the clapper, for a bell gone awry could have disastrous consequences for its wielder. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The audience are strangely subdued, clapping politely after each song.
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Yet we knew from the happy-clappy Sunday services that they were comfortable with guitars and tambourines.
I'm certain that, at any moment, somebody's going to snap a clapperboard shut and shout: ‘Madrid - the movie - Scene 82, take 3.’
In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.
alleluia;" they clapped their hands, leaped up, fell down, clasped each other in their free arms, cried, laughed, and went to and fro, tossing upward their unfettered hands; but high above the whole there was a mighty sound which ever and anon swelled up; it was the utterings in broken negro dialect of gratitude to God. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
There's a quasi-religious, Gospel feel about it all as grown women clap and cheer.
I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
He clapped a hand over his mouth, as if to stifle a burp or cover a yawn.
But I tell the doctor that as his members are clapping him, they are busy planning his downfall.
Afterwards there was a small reception party of supporters at the door of the Kildare dressing room, to clap the returning players in from their warm-down.
Rome, pick up Prince Charles, put him on the magic carpet, fly to London, clap the Cap of Darkness on him so that nobody can see him, set him down on the throne of his fathers; pick up the Elector, carry him over to his beloved Hanover, and the trick is done -- what they call a bloodless revolution in the history books. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son
Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
Within three days Reverend Thorn approached one of the most gracious villages ever to have developed in America: the tree-lined, white-clapboarded, well-gabled village of Walpole, near the Connecticut River in southwestern New Hampshire. Hawaii
No sooner were we in bed when there was an almighty thunderclap and the heavens opened up and of course it sounded very loud on the tin roof.
If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Judging from the fervent clapping, only diehard fans bought tickets. Times, Sunday Times
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
A clapper loader, ‘they load the magazines of film’.
Her figure curves gracefully from head to toe as she stands there, the only one left clapping.
On Saturday at 3 p.m. in France, nearly a quarter of a million fans will stand trackside at the Circuit de la Sarthe, the iconic road course near the city of Le Mans, to witness the start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and its thunderclap of engines. French Speed vs. German Muscle
But it's the gutbucket grooves supplied by Rochfords drums and bassist Tom Herbert that really get you in the chest, going like the clappers on ‘Your Eyes The Sea’ while the horns give it both barrels.
Andrew Galpin also broke the records on Thursday for the loudest clap (113 decibels), most baseballs held in a baseball glove (14), furthest coin flicking (10.64 metres) and furthest golf ball blow (5.835 metres). Radio New Zealand News Headlines
Twelve men and women plucked at random off a metaphorical Clapham omnibus to hold her destiny in their collective hands. A DEAD LIBERTY
It starts off with a 1: 30-long track that's just handclaps and vocals, but doesn't sound particularly folky.
Her parents would clap and say bravo and her dad would look at her like someone who has the special insight to realize those moments were the best of his life.
instead these clapboard houses made me think of the slave quarters of 19th century cotton plantations across America's southern states.
Behind the clapboard doors he could hear the surge buffeting the boat against the rubber tyres that protected the surrounding boardwalk. COMPULSION
I couldn't believe my own father was uttering such ageist claptrap.
The audience began clapping and cheering.
Others join in and the whole room burst into a riot of clapping, yells, and screaming.
After staggering about under this intense thunderclap of irony, we moved.
The other spectre that haunts liberal economics – other than the lingering unhappiness that its happy-clappy consumerism generates – is the broaching of planetary boundaries for survival. The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane
The policeman clapped hold of the pickpocket and took him to the Station.
Like Jeff Beck, his restlessness and commitment overrode the commercial gains to be won by the more mainstream Clapton.
My mother clapped her hands once, very loudly, to make sure we were listening.
The nursery teacher clapped her hands to attract the children's attention.
Another hot day - work's always a mare because the air conditioning's clapped out and that part of town stinks.
It represented one continued clap of thunder '. REBELS AND REDCOATS: The American Revolutionary War
We invariably travelled on some clapped-out smelly bus that made us nauseous with the diesel fumes.
See here, Dan," the big man went on, leaning forward; "I knowed what your arrant was the fust minute I clapped eyes on you. Southern Lights and Shadows
Yet at classical concerts there are aficionados who disapprove when people clap between movements. Times, Sunday Times
And the Finns' log cabins, erected on barely cleared cutover lands, were covered with white clapboard siding as soon as finances permitted.
All of these people were ringing cowbells, clapping, and cheering.
He passed out the ribbons and then clapped his hands once.
The winner of tonight's talent contest will be decided by clapometer.
There were a few that clapped back. The Sun
Behind the clapboard doors he could hear the surge buffeting the boat against the rubber tyres that protected the surrounding boardwalk. COMPULSION
It could have been someone clapping, a single clap to shoo away a bird. SNOWLINE
How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces?
The Brazilian martial art capoeira combines dance, music, high kicks and leg sweeps and is performed in a circle known as a roda, to the music of a single-stringed instrument called a berimbau and hand-claps. Week in Words
The group dumped their arms, and streeled back to their homes, though many of them never got that far, for the government seized thousands and clapped them into jail.
It was full of self-satisfied, self-congratulatory claptrap designed to fool the public - I will come back to that in a moment.
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
vehement clapping
When the weather turns foul in Unforgiven, you really feel as if you are at the center of a big rain cloud with drops falling all over and a few thunderclaps thrown in for good measure.
She gestured to the pillows next to her, for him to sit, sitting herself down and clapping her hands once, for her serving women to bring goblets, and drink.
A white clapboarded house with moss-green shutters and a dark oak Rainbow Hill
We must even acknowledge that the little Queen-bee fell into a few excesses, such as jumping over ditches where they were the broadest, and clapping her hands and shouting to frighten away phlegmatical crows. The Home
Helen yells at him and slams the door, but then there is a thunderclap and the sound of pouring rain.
It's white clapboard, surrounded by oak trees with a flagpole in the yard erected by Bob. THE INNOCENT
First it was boys who took to the ramp and in casuals and some in sports gear, they had the audience cheering and clapping.
But what happens when the right-wing minority decides that they've had enough of this liberal claptrap about integration?
At that point, Timmy got up and started clapping in a slow rhythmic cadence.
The primary occupant, originally installed on a green bier, was arrayed like a dancer, with bell-like ornaments made of shells and "clappers" made of canine teeth. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Plainclothes police officers have detained nearly 2,000 people since the so-called clapping protests began in June, in many cases because they were seen clapping or standing near people who were. NYT > Home Page
I got the feeling that I was supposed to clap my hands and incant three times, "I do believe in the Constitution -- I do, I do, I do believe in the Constitution. Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Constitution Is Not a Bumper Sticker
Moyle shows clapsticks appearing across the continent, bullroarers, pairs of boomerangs and rattles in specific regions, and the didjeridu in only the top areas of the continent.
William sat back and clapped his hand to the arms of the heavy chair. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
A middle-aged woman in a red suit adorned with a plastic button proclaiming “Jesus Loves Me!” offers a twenty-page service bulletin with a glossy purple and gold cover, and greets her fellow church members with a shouted “Welcome!” as she sways and claps to the music. American Grace
'I should clap on the thumbikins,' said one fierce-faced old soldier. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
It's just too big,’ says Adam, as he gently pushes the clapper until it just touches the bell, producing a deep, sonorous rumble.
Organized but unforgiving slabs of frantic bass and speedfreak drums are topped with distorted vocals, occasionally giving way for handclaps, vocoder voices and electro intros.
The audience loved his performance and the needle on the clapometer shot up.
You'll find yourself laughing out loud, clapping for the heroine, and feeling reluctant, amused commiseration for the hero.
On sitting in a pub she got a text from her flatmate about a party in Clapham which we decided it would be a laugh to go to since we both hadn't gatecrashed a party in years.
They await prepared with sound effects-thunderclaps and rattling chains.
He laughed heartily and clapped the boy's shoulder with vigor.
The coach clapped the new member of his team on the back to suggest his encouragement.
The second hardest thing is to learn is to avoid tired old clapped out baseball metaphors.
Bed and TV share room space with decrepit tumble dryers, clapped-out car and, inevitably, the kitchen sink. Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review
As the lights go down strobe lighting and terrific claps of thunder herald the storm.
This is the happy-clappy voice of Google's PR operation, a vast exercise in passive aggression designed to prop up the perception that Eric, Larry and Sergey really, really, really, don't want to do evil. Google Vs. Governments: Google Reacts To Nations' Privacy Complaints
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
Elinor listened, seated in a rocking-chair, restlessly clapping her protended ankles together. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
When Hampson closes his eyes at the end and bows his head, nobody dares to clap.
Finally I broke down and grinned, clapping him on the shoulder.
A continuous struggle against the dangers of landslips, fires, inundations, explosions of firedamp, like claps of thunder. The Underground City
The audience loved his performance and the needle on the clapometer shot up.
Tombstone, an easy day trip from Tucson, does however offer one vision of Arizona's pioneer days: clapboard and adobe buildings, and, of course, re-enacted gunfights.
Like his son, the cooper was a man of few words; but what he must have done at parting was to clap the boy on the shoulder, and say: "Now, go to it! Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
His efficient two-bedroom row house was somebody's idea of a New England design, clad in white clapboard and black trim. ABSOLUTE ZERO
He clapped his hat upon his head and turned to the door, wishing me a brief "Good e'en," before disappearing into the light and bustle of the inn. Sick Cycle Carousel
The audience clapped loudly at the end of the lecture.
Yet, when I had bidden the guards unhasp the collar which held the prisoner's neck, and clapped my arms around her, showing all the roughness of one who has no mind that his captive shall escape or even unduly struggle, a thrill gushed through me so potent that I was like to have fainted, and it was only by supreme strain of will that I held unbrokenly on with the ceremonial. The Lost Continent
But that changed when he clapped eyes on Vicky. The Sun
Nailed over the doorway of the ramshackle clapboard frontage of the building was a large rectangular sign.
He clapped his hands together and stood, looking out into space from the large window in his office.
Their worships, as he called them, were about a score of fusty crack-ropes and gallow-clappers, or rather more, all posted before a bar, and staring at each other like so many dead pigs. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
*beeky beeky beeky beeky wingy wingy wingy wing wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle clap clap clap clap* Flying: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
But a mid-afternoon clap of thunder and the presence of dark, rainy skies sent this reporter scurrying for the safety of his car.
The fast footwork, rhythmic clapping and haunting singing radiate an atmosphere of passion and raw emotion.
Then she heard them, echoing footfalls: she knew it was Vangelis, her heart started to hammer and bang like the clapper of a crazy bell. COUP D'ETAT
The Gitanos sing, clap and dance for themselves.
Perhaps it was a claque: a paid band of willing clappers.
Clapton has covered the Johnson songbook throughout his career, most famously in ‘Crossroads’, his barnstorming showstopper when he was in Cream more than 30 years ago.
The palm trees were wilding outside, hissing and clapping. A DARKENING STAIN
‘At the front desk we heard the explosion starting like a clap of thunder and then it kept rolling,’ she said.
The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain! Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck.
White-painted cedar clapboards cover its gabled forms, which are topped by classic standing-seam metal roofs.
You'll note the white veil upon the cross, and the use of the "clapper" instead of the bells at the consecration. Holy Thursday from Ss. Trinita, Rome
My eyes have shallow sea land old clap vita etched a bay miss.
Mark gave him a friendly clap on the shoulder, ‘ah, don't worry about it, you'll find out sooner or later right?’
Eric said: ‘There was a clap of thunder and that was the last I saw of her.’
In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.
The students enjoyed the speaker so much that the clapping continued for a long time.
They clapped their hands in approval.
It could have been someone clapping, a single clap to shoo away a bird. SNOWLINE
Chronic period often cannot find clap diplococcus on smear.
No more bubbly electroid jump here; at its most distinctive, this record unleashes rhythm-happy stomps that kick and clap like black-college step routines.
Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap.
Houses come with a genuine corrugated metal roof, clapboard siding and an outhouse (with modern plumbing, of course).
Accordingly, of the subway bury difficult question, nobody dare clappers, bemused all the time decision - making process.
Suddenly Nook clapped his hands, and a broad grin spread across his face.
This "line of control" is surly meant to contain a remerging Russia and not as the official Pentagon claptrap expounds to protect Europe from incoming Iranian missiles. Ohmynews International
ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow. Southern California Coast (Bailey)
Apologising for having to re-start Tomorrow, I'll Be Home Today because of an out of tune guitar, he began again as the crowd accompanied him with a sea of handclaps.
All of a sudden, a clap of thunder roared in their ears, jolting them back into the world of the living.
There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut. In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
Plus there are some seriously cheesy synth lines and fake handclaps etc that would make Lil Jon run from the room in embarrassment (maybe shouting something unintelligible as he did).
I must have been nuts, but as I say, it's a special night, so I clap my hands and make a few wolf whistles just to be cute, but then I get to thinking she looks cuckoo up there, poor thing. Cockroaches
As I peched along in his tweed-clad wake on a freezing cold day, I remembered the first time I clapped eyes on him.
There were a few that clapped back. The Sun
He came on stage amid clapping and cheering.
At that moment, everybody began clapping.
Numbers like "Annie" (co-written with Eric Clapton) and "April Fool" spotlight Lane's gifts as a master sentimentalist, while "You're So Rude" recalls the lusty lad rock of the Faces with (a pre-Hollywood sell out) Rod Stewart. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
But beshrew me, he cried, clapping hand to his forehead, tomorrow will be a new day and, thousand thunders, I know of a MARCHAND DE CAPOTES, Ulysses
You can almost hear the sound of one hand clapping in applause. Times, Sunday Times
When I clap my hands, you must stand still, " said the teacher.

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