Example Sentences

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It is here the wrestlers, known as rikishi, will perform their leg stomps to drive away evil spirits, and where they will clap to get the attention of the gods.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

But all of them will clap offbeat to “Put a Little Love in Your Heart,” I solemnly swear.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Give a child a model backhoe and she will clap her plump hands together with delight and cry, “Dada! Dada!”

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

Perhaps you, Mr Pop, will do some poetry and we will clap politely and act like grownups for once.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2019

Its knees will clap together, its chest fall in.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)