Sentence examples for to acclamation from inspiring English sources
noun
A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
- On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. -Robert Southey.
What Hummels, 22, has accomplished is something akin to Dortmund's rise from ashes to acclamation.
If O'Connor were a legislator, she might be re-elected by something close to acclamation.
Theatrical purists may object to acclamation on these pages for writers whose current high-profile is half due to screenwriting.
To acclamation, Vojislav Kostunica donned that mantle back in October, after he had thrashed Slobodan Milosevic in an election for the presidency and was triumphantly propelled into the job, after Mr Milosevic had refused to leave it, by an exultant wave of rebellion on the streets.
In the middle of it all on Friday, members stopped their fighting to give an acclamation to Representative Jane Harman, Democrat of California, who is retiring.
It will then make its own way to the edge of outer space, to the acclamation of six fare-paying passengers.At $200,000 a seat, that should be good business.
Marlborough returned to England on 14 December (O.S) to the acclamation of Queen Anne and the country.
Thus, when Edward died in July 1553 and the Duke of Northumberland attempted to have the Protestant Lady Jane Grey made Queen, the unpopularity of the confiscations gave Mary the opportunity to have herself proclaimed Queen, first in Suffolk, and then in London to the acclamation of the crowds.
This beautiful theatre, second only to La Scala, Milan, with six tiers of white and gold boxes rising from floor to ceiling, resounds to their acclamations when the singers take their many curtain calls.
Midnight has passed before the curtain falls and he makes his exit, to renewed acclamation.
"You don't want an offensive, do you?" he asked the crowd, to general acclamation.
