handclapping

Example Sentences

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Anticipation fills the air with their chatter and giggly handclapping games as they await the audition call.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2014

Whenever you hear angels handclapping be sure that Maestro is playing his guitar somewhere.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2014

Here came the rhythmic handclapping and Hirt’s tenor over the loudspeakers for a seventh time, the Saints, on this night, having marched in every which way there is.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2013

I introduced him, he played Space Oddity and they started slow handclapping.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2013

The President came in; there was handclapping above us in the grand stand, and I handed the glasses to Brett.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway