Sentence examples for clapping from inspiring English sources

We were shattered – until the German officers started clapping in the front rows.

But while proposals are common elsewhere, that's not the case in Spain, so Esther didn't suspect anything until the cuddly bat handed Jesús the shirt, he went down on one knee and all around her people started clapping and cheering.

The miner's wife, Siân James, is to his left, staring directly at him, clapping too, looking as though she cannot believe her eyes.

At a post-referendum rally, Black described being at the count and walking past "all these fatcat Labour councillors goading us, clapping sarcastically, saying 'better luck next time' or 'hard lines'.

"If they accept, I will send you three teachers so that you have four qualified teachers," Oumo said amid clapping.

We look at it together: he is leaning back, eyes closed, hands clapping.

Children make chalk drawings on the roads, senior citizens settle for a comfortable round of carrom, a local board game, while a folk singer has housewives clapping along to a energising beat.

The film featured footage of a woman making out with a dog and a small child while people stood around clapping during part of what was called 'the sexy displays'.

He'd just returned from Trephina Gorge, where he worked as a trainee ranger and was singing and clapping to his favourite tunes before a beery night out.

He explained on Twitter that he was actually doing the sign language equivalent for clapping for a friend whose first language is Auslan.

THE centre of Damascus, the Syrian capital, may be quiet but in dense suburbs where most of its 3m inhabitants live, chanting, hand-clapping marches burst out of dozens of local mosques.