clapper
Example Sentences
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“That’s a clapper rail,” Mike said, an endangered bird that makes its home in the estuary.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
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
More steel tubes branch out from the top of the rods in an interlinked canopy that is hung with dozens of differently shaped and patterned ceramic bells, each with a copper clapper.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021
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
Rosa waves and clicks her clapper, but I’m slumping again.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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