hand-clapping
Example Sentences
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After some girls completed their classwork recently, they played a hand-clapping game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
No sign of that at time of writing, and there was a desk-banging, hand-clapping show of unity from Labour MSs in yesterday's debate.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
They burst forth with full-throated, hand-clapping exuberance, with soloists using the auctioneer’s elevated lectern as a pulpit to deliver a musical sermon about longing, travails, aspirations and faith.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2023
The song blooms into full-fledged reggae, but doesn’t settle there; it dissolves into a hand-clapping beat and echoey piano chords, with a few words from Ederra’s mother at the end.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022
The ape had spoken; there was a burst of laughter and hand-clapping.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
