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clap
noun as in loud hitting noise
verb as in applaud; slap with approbation
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Example Sentences
Which is why you should: “Clap along, if you feel like a room without a roof.”
The music drifted through the rain and the woman started to clap her hands and dance.
Like, clap-my-hands-together-in-schoolgirl-like-glee over the moon to see it.
No one applauded–rare on a night when hands tend to clap after every cough and sneeze.
Everyone stood up to clap in his honor, including Mao himself.
"We have a grandfather in Greenfield," spoke up the youngest child before his sister could clap her hand over his mouth.
But ten thousand saw Musa's hand clap to hilt, and Iftikhar's lance half fall to rest.
Viscount Melbourne expressed himself to the effect that the Earl of Ripon's motion came like a thunder-clap upon him.
You had a very fair clap-trap against us, as we happened to be master manufacturers, in saying that we wanted to reduce wages.
You can't clap a new head on to old shoulders without upsetting circulation and equilibrium.
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On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to clap, such as: applause, bang, blast, boom, burst, and crack.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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