Example Sentences

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“I wanted her to feel like, ‘Mom, look at all these people that are clapping for you.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"Look at all these people, they are clapping for you," he said, as the audience duly obliged.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2023

It can be tricky sometimes, because I am performing and people are clapping, and my sisters are sleeping in cars in southern Turkey — the center of the earthquake.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

People are clapping because they’re family members have died.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2020

Zach Oh is shouting the words, and so are Olivia and Luke and Dawn Celeste, and they’ve all caught on and are clapping, and Malcolm adds a little fist in the air at each punctuation.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti