Example sentences for: clapping

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

  • (While the audience is clapping for more.)

  • There are also different varieties of flamenco dance (the tango, fandango, farruca, and zambra) performed to the staccato rhythms and counter-rhythms of the castanets, hand clapping (palmadas), and finger snapping (pitos), as well as furious heel-drumming (zapateado).

  • Still, I am nagged by inadequacies in Green's definition of high-five , which suggests that each individual might be simply clapping his hands together, and I am bothered by the ODNW's failure to note the date of entry into the language, saying that the earliest use of the term dates to 1979; I think that Green is right to hint at the fact that the gesture preceded its use in sport: my guess is that slap five arose among black teenagers or, perhaps, musicians as a form of greeting, approval, farewell, and the like and was later carried over into sports (perhaps, as the ODNW suggests, by Derek Smith), where it became high five . It seems unlikely that we shall ever know for sure.

  • This might be related to the abrupt changes that occur with manual turning, and pain associated with manual hand clapping on the chest wall.

  • It's amazing to hear booing and loud slow clapping meant to prevent Dylan from playing an electric version of "." That's Rick Danko, the bassist, singing harmony on the word "behind," creating a perfect rock moment.


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