clapper

Example Sentences

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But when he recorded the sequel, a dozen clappers turned out.

From New York Times

Back at the zendo, several minutes passed by until some zen clappers clicked, and the dozen or so people around her in the zendo rose to their feet and began to slowly walk in circles.

From Seattle Times

The music underscoring the monologue is both haunting and jarring, and it mixes in sounds from traditional Japanese theater like wooden clappers and samisen, a traditional stringed instrument.

From Los Angeles Times

There was no such discord in the closing ceremony, which had fans waving plastic clappers, making a sound that approximated either rain or a swarm of locusts.

From Los Angeles Times

Fans rattled the plastic clappers they had been handed — generally obeying pandemic-era instructions not to open their masked-covered mouths to cheer — and watched her every move.

From New York Times