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Example sentences for: clap

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

I just wanted to send a clap on the shoulder to Michael Lewis for his Day 3 Dispatch from the Microsoft trial.
With the one-two punch of items critical of Java in Shuman's piece and James Surowiecki's column, "Culture Wars," I have to close my eyes and clap for Tinkerbell to believe that Slate remains independent and exercises untrammeled judgment on what points of view to present on issues directly affecting its parent corporation.
(He has another collection, Boswell's Clap & Other Essays , from the same publisher(s), which is as good as this one.)
Left on the street were such synonyms as gleet (1340), clap (1587), and running ranes or raines (1588).
Idiomatic drinking, like drinking itself, is a little fuzzier, but two senses coexist: having your comrades clap you on the back as you tilt up your beer stein, or else downing a draught of nasty medicine because the doctor tells you to.