Sentence examples for a claptrap from inspiring English sources
A verb intransitive is a claptrap thing.
After all, a claptrap was originally a rhetorical device designed to draw applause.
Poetry by Julie Sheehan: "A verb intransitive is a claptrap thing.
Claptrap's New Robot Revolution invites single-player and co-op fans back to try to suppress a deadly Claptrap revolution using one of four infamous vault hunters.
This approach inevitably ended in a series of grimaces, a pyramid of claptrap, and an orgy of unreality," he writes in the diary.
Bassam's objection, he concluded, "is all claptrap which would not pass an entrance examination, let alone a first year paper".
For Keith, the idea that anyone would go along with a load of embarrassing old claptrap for a buck remains very much unthinkable.
Modern life is such a clutter of claptrap that it's easy to think everything's only ever getting more madcap.
His "Shades" was a fairly close copy of the Kirov version, but in many of his other productions of the classics he "modernized" the story by adding a lot of claptrap about sex and violence which was out of date even in the sixties.
There is a lot of claptrap going on in the charter schools in your neighborhood, people!
How will they be able to generate their own ideas and discover their own passions if they've been subjected to a decade of claptrap about "college readiness"?
