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Example sentences for "claps"

Lexicographically close words:
clapped; clapper; clappers; clapping; clappings; clapt; claptrap; claque; clar; claration
  1. A friend enters and claps me on the back.

  2. Were the thunder-claps of the law so terrible, and didst thou so slight them?

  3. God hath cast her out of his presence, and claps the door upon her.

  4. The old gentleman too, the Recorder, that was so before Diabolus took Mansoul, he also began to talk aloud; and his words were now to the town of Mansoul as if they were great claps of thunder.

  5. A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole: the carpenter claps it into one of his ever ready vices, and straightway files it smaller.

  6. Emerson claps his hand on his bowie, Longfellow claps his on his revolver, and I went under a bunk.

  7. Formerly a cotillon leader used a whistle for the different figures; to-day, however, he simply claps his hands to denote the changes.

  8. The same procedure occurs, and when the leader claps his hands the dancers separate, waiting for the favors to be distributed.

  9. After a turn around the room the leader stops and claps his hands.

  10. First the farmer sows his seed, Then he stands and takes his ease, Stamps his foot and claps his hands, And turns him round to view the land.

  11. When a person is called at a distance he gives two loud claps of assent; or if he rises from near a superior he does, the same thing, which is a sort of leave-taking.

  12. When inferiors are called they respond by two brisk claps of the hands, meaning "I am coming.

  13. Miss, if you'll believe me, the moment he claps eyes on that there picture, he halloes out, and out goes his two hands like this here.

  14. With that this yere soldier yanks the bridle outen my grasp, claps the steel into his hoss's flanks, an' leaves me like a bullet from a gun.

  15. As they passes, Texas turns as f'rocious as forty timber wolves, an' claps his hand on the shoulder of the Signal party.

  16. Pasha claps her hands joyously: "Ah, it's my Levanchik!

  17. He raises her, then claps his hands delightedly.

  18. And in saying this he pulls the score from under my arm and claps it into the lowest drawer and that's where it is lying today!

  19. UGRIN claps his hands and rolls laughing on the ground.

  20. And here is a little Shinto priest in full hieratic garb: when this little string between his feet is pulled, he claps his hands as if in prayer.

  21. Each pilgrim remains but a little while, and claps his hands but four times; yet so many are coming and going that the sound of the clapping is like the sound of a cataract.

  22. Of these, one calls out the number upon the box and the other takes it and claps it sharply on the table.

  23. Here he claps the forging in the trimmer, click goes the self-act, and down comes the tool.

  24. He applies his tongue to it as if for some healing quality, claps it upon his head, and, wearied with physical exertion and mental anxiety, falls asleep.

  25. As soon as this is concluded each claps his hand and wheels grotesquely, singing the second line.

  26. In the Lincolnshire version the above description answers, except that when the last line is sung every one claps hands.

  27. When once you loses sight of her, why, then its all guess-work, and a chance that you ever claps eyes on her again.

  28. The gathering storm over the city burst with lightning and thunder claps through the blood-red radiance.

  29. And Chinna Tumbe claps his hands, and cries, Wah, wah!

  30. And Chinna Tumbe laughs, and claps his hands, and dances for delight, and all his silver bells jingle gleefully.

  31. The game is repeated as before until the teacher claps her hands twice when all take their own seats.

  32. The miller claps his hands three times and all run for a partner, the pupil not getting one becomes "Miller.

  33. The teacher claps her hands once and all exchange seats as rapidly as possible.

  34. He claps his hands three times, whereupon the players run across to the other side.

  35. After which the "Ayes" and hand claps were so deafening, that the good man bowed his head as if before a storm.

  36. If she had expected hand-claps or applause she failed to get either.

  37. But the moment that the Ensign of St. George floated from the summit of St. Paul's a rapid series of explosions roared out like a succession of thunder-claps along the lines of the batteries.

  38. He saw the dazzling green flash of the explosions, then came a shaking of the atmosphere, and a roar as of a hundred thunder-claps in his ears, and he dropped senseless to the deck beside the corpse of the Professor.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "claps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chancre; clap; dose; gonorrhea; paresis; syphilis; tabes