Example sentences for: applaud

How can you use “applaud” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You may even want to applaud his efforts to bust unions.

  • Critics applaud this semisatirical reinterpretation of Proust's 3,000-page novel Remembrance of Things Past as a nine-step self-help book.

  • I applaud the New York Times for trying to convey some of that excitement and say woe to you for dipping to such cynicism.

  • The instinctive response of most educated people to the disappearance of any taboo is to applaud it, but this is wrong.

  • I felt definitely “out” when I first heard a British audience applaud with chuckling appreciation at the mention of the name Val Doonican . For all I knew, the man who said it had made up the name and the audience was laughing because the name was funny, as they might well do when hearing a name like Kylie Minogue . It took me a while to understand that Kylie Minogue is the name of a real person.


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