Sentence examples for is clapped from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
- He summoned the waiter with a clap.
The agreement is clapped out.
The men mutiny and the captain is clapped in irons.
Cumming and Barton were working on a routine that Mac does when, after numberless crimes, he is clapped in Newgate Prison.
Godwin's friend Roy Bennett, a white Shona-speaking ex-farmer and M.D.C. leader, beloved by his black constituents, returns from exile in South Africa to take up a junior cabinet post and is clapped into jail, held for weeks in frightful conditions.
From the moment the new American apparatus is clapped on, the outcome of the eponymous speech the movie drives towards can no longer be in doubt.
"Everybody is clapping, clapping!" Joel reported, dazed.
Bercow: 322 Young: 271 8.30pm: Young is clapping magnanimously.
The audience is clapping along to it, though.
The other is clapping at him, her mouth agape, perhaps contributing her own taunt.
