clapper

Example Sentences

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When the sound is rolling and the clapper has been hit, I never say “Action.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2023

A clapper rail darts for cover in a patch of coastal red mangroves.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2021

More steel tubes branch out from the top of the rods in an interlinked canopy that is hung with dozens of differently shaped and patterned ceramic bells, each with a copper clapper.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021

He measured mileage by attaching a rod inside a wagon wheel — based on the circumference of the wheel, a clapper would sound at each mile and that’s where a marker would go.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2020

So do marsh-inhabiting birds like the clapper rail, shore- birds, and even visiting seabirds.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson