Sentence examples for sustained ovation from inspiring English sources

One speaker got a sustained ovation.

The source of their sustained ovation?

Scores of delegates and observers gave her a sustained ovation.

Everyone in the cathedral stood for a sustained ovation.

Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) #Monti gets sustained ovation from Brussels audience.

Then they united in a sustained ovation as the teams left the field.

In "Bird on the Wire," "Hallelujah" and "Tower of Song" he sang of being weighted down by cynicism and starving for affection, but between songs he doffed his hat and smiled broadly for sustained ovations.

"We must lead, but we must listen," Senator Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, declared at Westminster College here, drawing one of five sustained ovations from a largely partisan audience.

This man will lift up America," she told the Republican National Convention to a series of sustained ovations, capped by the emergence of Mitt Romney from behind the stage for a quick, chaste kiss and the nominee's first acknowledgment of the convention.

As they settled into their chairs in front of a large audience that had already given Mr. Salter two sustained ovations, Mr. Ford said, "So I guess the whole 'writer's writer' thing is over now?" "I hope so," Mr. Salter replied.

Whether the sustained ovations from the audience can be transformed into a long run as a Broadway musical is anybody's guess.