clapper

Example Sentences

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When speaking to BBC News NI he brought along a clapper board, dog tag and Ranger Battalion jacket he kept from the set of Saving Private Ryan.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

Several men held clapper sticks made of elderberry wood and began tapping a rhythm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

“There is this secretive marsh bird called a clapper rail,” Mx.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

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

And there, on a hook, was an old brass clapper, dull and green, with an engraving of a sunrise over a desert half-hidden beneath the crust of verdigris.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee