Example sentences for: applause

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

  • Fundamentalist Ahmed Baqer also drew applause from the men when he screamed, "Kuwaiti people don't want (women's rights)!

  • Applause for 32-year-old British director Sam Mendes' reinterpretation of the musical about Weimar Germany, the second Kander-Ebb show to be revived recently ( Chicago has been on Broadway since 1996).

  • The cheers and applause are overwhelming,

  • The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.

  • The WP and NYT both capture the growing political nuance of the street-level situation with their observations that some army troops were greeted with applause by rioters, and that the soldiers, unlike the cops, mingled with the crowds.


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