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Clapping in sentence

81 examples of Clapping in a sentence

Then you have the clapping audience, yeah, actually taking part in doing the music.
And to see all the people coming out to greet me and standing along the cliff tops and clapping and cheering, I just felt like a movie star.
The camera moves around to reveal the kid, wearing black glasses, having lost his eyes, the kid hears the other kids splashing in the water and starts clapping.
When this showed at the Seattle Int'l Film Fest I was the only person standing and clapping and cheering.
When Kate shows up and Jed is with a bunch of guys and they all start clapping...so Hollywood.
This one generated the least audience response (no clapping afterward)of the five.
The audience at the film festival was 'ohing' and clapping.
The peasants of this county are ridiculously portrayed: poor,pale, invalids that just shuffle around, stare and clap bricks together (the clapping of bricks is towards the end of the movie as the train is finally derailed and they are coming to get Beverly to prepare her for "her wedding").
The audience was cheering and clapping throughout the film.
It is the sound of one hand clapping louder than a football crowd.
I found myself laughing, crying, cheering, clapping, and enjoying the roller-coaster ride of emotions to the very end.
Officially regarded as an omnipotent genius, he is worshipped like a god and shown constantly surrounded by people, including his highest military officers festooned in medals, laughing or clapping, or shouting hysterically.
And, to avoid interrupting the “dialogue” by clapping, they used forceful hand signals to express their agreement.
In North Korea, half-hearted clapping can be a capital offense.
In the end, even Spassky paid the ultimate tribute to Fischer’s genius, clapping along with the audience after Fischer’s inspired sixth-game victory, as portrayed in the movie.
Indian MPs still thump their desks in approbation, rather than applauding by clapping their hands.
When the crowd, which was still in shadow, saw him thus, white with light, distributing fortune with his open hands, they applauded anew by prolonged clapping.
"I know what it is," said he, clapping him on the shoulder; "I've been through it.
"How are you?" they said, clapping him on the shoulder.
No sooner had he risen than 'Good God!' he exclaimed, clapping his hand to his head, 'she is the one person whom I cannot trust; from this moment she is my enemy.'
Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!"
"No, indeed," said the surgeon, clapping a spoon in the mouth of the other, forcing it open, and looking down his throat as if disposed to visit the interior in person.
And so on, with clapping of joyful hands till all the group had begged for invitations but Tom and Amy.
Sancho took out some lint and ointment from the alforjas; but when Don Quixote came to see his helmet shattered, he was like to lose his senses, and clapping his hand upon his sword and raising his eyes to heaven, be said,"I swear by the Creator of all things and the four Gospels in their fullest extent, to do as the great Marquis of Mantua did when he swore to avenge the death of his nephew Baldwin (and that was not to eat bread from a table-cloth, nor embrace his wife, and other points which, though I cannot now call them to mind, I here grant as expressed) until I take complete vengeance upon him who has committed such an offence against me."
The father, with a little boy in his arms, appeared at the door, and they crowded round him, clapping their tiny hands, and dragging him out, to join their joyous sports.
'Now!'Up struck the two fiddles and the one harp, and off went Mr. Pickwick into hands across, when there was a general clapping of hands, and a cry of 'Stop, stop!''What's the matter?' said Mr. Pickwick, who was only brought to, by the fiddles and harp desisting, and could have been stopped by no other earthly power, if the house had been on fire.
As Sam Weller spoke, the little door flew open, and Brother Tadger appeared, closely followed by the Reverend Mr. Stiggins, who no sooner entered, than there was a great clapping of hands, and stamping of feet, and flourishing of handkerchiefs; to all of which manifestations of delight, Brother Stiggins returned no other acknowledgment than staring with a wild eye, and a fixed smile, at the extreme top of the wick of the candle on the table, swaying his body to and fro, meanwhile, in a very unsteady and uncertain manner.
Kate stepped in, and the cavalcade galloped to the palace, Tarvin riding always a little in front with Umr Singh clapping his hands on the saddlebow.
The Red Duke!" cried Porthos, clapping his hands and nodding his head.
"Oh, yes," said Kitty, clapping her hands, "very willing."
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