clap

How to use clap in a sentence

Previous research had suggested that a butterfly’s overhead wing clap forces the insect forward.

Researchers thought they knew how the clap worked, he notes.

The pocket shape “dramatically improves the clap by trapping more air and creating a stronger jet.”

Researchers thought the wing clap likely formed a pocket of air that shoots out like a jet.

He once joked to The Washington Post that it was “a little bit like saying you have the clap.”

"We have a grandfather in Greenfield," spoke up the youngest child before his sister could clap her hand over his mouth.

THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER

But ten thousand saw Musa's hand clap to hilt, and Iftikhar's lance half fall to rest.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

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.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985