Sentence examples for cheers of hands from inspiring English sources

In Ferguson, residents with signs gathered at the site of the shooting in the early afternoon, prompting honking horns and cheers of "hands up, don't shoot".

When Mr. Mumford played the opening guitar riff for "The Cave," the crowd erupted in cheers as thousands of hands shot into the air.

Beyond that there were scattered empty seats and the sound, not just of silence but of indifference: some scratchy applause, echoing whoops and cheers, a few pairs of hands, tiny in all that air, applauding.

Three cheers for hands-on learning.

The speaker of Parliament paused a second or so before declaring the result of the show of hands, followed by cheers and chants.

Sable, only wearing impressions of hands painted on her exposed breasts, won the contest after receiving the most cheers from the audience.

Then to the cheers of many, in mid-1967, Ali was handed a guilty sentence.

Paws upright, her muscles are relaxed enough to sustain the amount of hand-cheering she needs to make it through the event.

No meeting was complete without a segment in which people talked about excellence, the drive to achieve excellence, and a lot of cheering and hand-clapping in recognition of those who had in some way quantified or demonstrated extreme excellence.

She ran past millions of cheering, hand-extending New Yorkers on the way to breaking the finish line tape in Central Park nine times.

"Wedlock", her previous book, followed the misfortunes of a certain countess at the hands of her abusive husband, who gets his comeuppance to the cheers of every reader.