The audience continued clapping for a long time after the performance. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used without object) : After the audience stopped clapping, the tenor sang two encores. ,The shutters clapped in the wind. ,She clapped across the room in her slippers. From Dictionary.com.
There was a loud clapping from the boys who were perched on the rail fence, but some of the girls were crying. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Valley] Reference
Matthews frequently obsesses over Clinton's "clapping" -- which he describes as "Chinese.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Can his 'clapping' hands get any limper? via The Sideshow. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Sort of just kind of clapping and shuffling from side to side. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2009] Reference
You usually come in there, everybody is kind of clapping everybody on the back and all. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2001] Reference
The debates are very heated and punctuated with ritual gestures, such as clapping hands. From Wordnik.com. [Overview of the Gelug Monastic Education System] Reference
Have disposed of peel, and used vinegar to wash, but am still "clapping" to try to get rid of the critters. From Wordnik.com. [Chat Leftovers: Fly, fly away. Please.] Reference
When I put the kid on his back, I saw (D.J.) clapping, which is better than him yelling at me to get up. ". From Wordnik.com. [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference
Notice how the clapping is a pump. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
It is the sound of one beef curtain clapping. From Wordnik.com. [A Picture Is Worth Years Of Therapy | Her Bad Mother] Reference
The doorbell rang; Zack started clapping and laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Darin Strauss's "More Than It Hurts You"] Reference
Shiraz Dada on bass kept the crowd active and clapping. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Gittleson: Maps & Atlases Surprise, Play Impromptu Acoustic Show At Mercury Lounge] Reference
My mother was too busy clapping and cheering for Sally. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping] Reference
Whole room is clapping to Safety Dance right now. #sdcc. From Wordnik.com. [Comic-Con 2010: Live Tweets from Sunday panels and events] Reference
Paul paused, eventually relenting to the clapping crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Vague Obscenities] Reference
Coles says, and the studio erupts into cheers and clapping. From Wordnik.com. [A Master's Mission: Michael Coles used tae kwon do to escape a difficult childhood. Now he's helping others do the same.] Reference
But if he doesn't, maybe we should all stop clapping for him. From Wordnik.com. [What's Anthony Weiner's position on Ground Zero mosque?] Reference
Some of the people join us in clapping; other people are annoyed. From Wordnik.com. [Business: What Would Jesus Buy?] Reference
"Amen, sister," said Regenhard, clapping her hands above her head. From Wordnik.com. [War Over Ground Zero] Reference
"If you keep clapping, I will cry," he said, with his voice cracking. From Wordnik.com. [Hayward Defends Tenure, BP's Spill Response] Reference
Every place we went it repeated itself: crying, clapping, lots of hugs. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's Neighborhood] Reference
He heard their screams and their feet clapping on the asphalt concourse. From Wordnik.com. [True Love and the Giraffe] Reference
People around me in the shadows by the stage started clapping to the rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Along Came Doreen] Reference
We'd take turns clapping for one another, acknowledging how wonderful we are. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping] Reference
By now the crowd was clapping and crying and preachers were closing in behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Week] Reference
I immediately spotted him in the crowd, clapping his hands and dancing some sort of jig. From Wordnik.com. [An Overdue 'Thank You' To My Dad] Reference
"" After the clapping at the end of the shoot, I went up and told the staff, '' she said. From Wordnik.com. [Teen Envy In Hollywood] Reference
They come down the runway beaming, holding hands and blowing kisses to a clapping audience. From Wordnik.com. [Showtime!] Reference
Soon his music had 1,300 people clapping in time, which was another way of making his point. From Wordnik.com. [America in Harmony] Reference
She and I circled the classroom, the kids standing and clapping, until she danced out the door. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Child (Part I of III)] Reference
Their testimony is an ecstatic, Pentecostal affair, full of hand-clapping and spontaneous witness. From Wordnik.com. [Savior Of The Streets] Reference
Castro raised his arm as he left to big smiles in the well of the Assembly and hard hand-clapping. From Wordnik.com. [Upstaged] Reference
Perry greeted Obama at the foot of the stairs from Air Force One, clapping for the president as he descended. From Wordnik.com. [Texas gov. asks Obama for more troops for Texas-Mexico border] Reference
By the time I realized what had happened, I was already dancing and clapping to the sounds of Maps & Atlases. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Gittleson: Maps & Atlases Surprise, Play Impromptu Acoustic Show At Mercury Lounge] Reference
As they settled into their seats, a friend called out, "Barack!" and the audience turned around and began clapping. From Wordnik.com. ['The Audacity of Hope'] Reference
In the interests of those of us who want praise, I've developed a scenario for such days: a day of two hands clapping. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping] Reference
Still, he makes the executive decision, upon clapping the phone shut, that the Jacuzzi people can live with their clog. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Fury] Reference
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