hand-clapping
Example Sentences
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After some girls completed their classwork recently, they played a hand-clapping game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
No sign of that at time of writing, and there was a desk-banging, hand-clapping show of unity from Labour MSs in yesterday's debate.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
Alligator Records said Lay was known for his “trademark, hard-to-copy ‘double-shuffle’” drumming, based on double-time hand-clapping in his childhood church.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022
When this show opened in 1970, The New York Times called it “a hand-clapping, foot-tapping, sky-reaching, finger-jabbing, body-swaying, ear-splitting musical revue.”
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2018
There waren’t no foot-stamping nor no hand-clapping nor no tambourine-shaking to make you happy.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
