Clapping Synonyms

To strike
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slamming
  2. whacking
  3. slapping
  4. banging
  5. crashing
To make a sudden sharp, explosive noise
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. snapping
  2. popping
  3. cracking
  4. barking
  5. banging
A demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. applause
  2. hand-clapping

Clapping Sentence Examples

  • She jumped up and down clapping her hands.

  • Ingrid was clapping at the television, and his gaze flickered to the screen.

  • Dean thought he'd lost her completely but she remained sitting, clapping with the other spectators—a bit too strenuously—as the puppy parade continued.

  • And a minute or two later the Frenchman, a black-eyed fellow with a spot on his cheek, in shirt sleeves, really did jump out of a window on the ground floor, and clapping Pierre on the shoulder ran with him into the garden.

  • Dean thought he'd lost her completely but she remained sitting, clapping with the other spectators—a bit too strenuously—as the puppy parade continued.

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