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Example sentences for "applaud"

Lexicographically close words:
appetizing; appetyte; appier; appiness; appinted; applauded; applauders; applauding; applauds; applause
  1. But I don't know your English, so sing us something in French, Monsieur, that I may applaud the sentiment as well as the voice.

  2. And yet if the Institute does not escort its daughters in shoals to applaud Andromache, where on earth does it take them?

  3. Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow?

  4. O comedy that has no audience, which yet is played by one heart before another heart and where both of you applaud because both of you think that you have obtained success!

  5. Shall we not see that honour carried it, even in favour of the hopeless against the hopeful, and applaud him the more for being able to overcome?

  6. In the sequel, he saw reason to applaud himself for his former inactivity in this respect, and to repent that any motive had been strong enough to persuade him into a contrary system.

  7. New York can always be trusted to applaud itself.

  8. Heartily did I applaud the language of M.

  9. St. Florentin to the post of censor royal, this friend to the philosophers was remarkable for the peculiar talent, with which he would alternately applaud and condemn the writings of these gentlemen.

  10. After all, why should I need his or any other person's opinion; let the whole world applaud or condemn, I shall still act according to my own best judgment.

  11. It was so clever I wanted to applaud him on the spot.

  12. I always want to applaud it; it is charming.

  13. All you've got to do is to applaud vigorously no matter how poor the show.

  14. We cannot, however, too much applaud the magnanimity of those men, in refusing to fight against and slaughter their countrymen; nor can we too much detest the conduct of Great Britain, in confining them as prisoners of war.

  15. There are times when people will applaud everything: they applauded my toast.

  16. At the Haymarket Theatre I saw a fashionable audience wildly applaud a play in which the local tailor becomes a major-general and returns home to marry the daughter of the lord of a mayor whose clothes he used to cut before the war.

  17. Certain playgoers, indeed, appear to applaud no matter what, simply for the sake of applauding.

  18. The learned never applaud the abandonment of one's own child.

  19. Therefore, persons acquainted with the Vedas never applaud those men--not even kings at the head of their troops--who approach any pools of water at such a time.

  20. And such was his terrible prowess and extraordinary lightness of hand, and such the skill with which he protected himself, that the contending car-warriors, though his enemies, began to applaud him loudly.

  21. Of these, the learned always applaud the eighth form of marriage.

  22. And the Brahmanas began to utter blessings upon him and the bards began to applaud him.

  23. While a man of taste will applaud heartily on occasion, he will refrain from extravagant and continuous clapping.

  24. If managers would combine and agree to order the doors closed several minutes before the performance begins, it would soon remedy the trouble, and a host of patrons would applaud their course.

  25. I applaud therefore your government, which, although separated from mine by an immense ocean, has not failed to send me congratulatory letters, accompanied with tributary offerings.

  26. In fact, you have great reason to applaud me.

  27. I must applaud your good nature, in supposing that your pastoral lovers (vulgarly called haymakers) would have lived in everlasting joy and harmony, if the lightning had not interrupted their scheme of happiness.

  28. I see no glory in losing life or fortune by being the dupe of either, and very much applaud that conduct which could preserve an universal esteem amidst the fury of opposite parties.

  29. I can only say that I love the matter, and that ought to cover, many faults; and that I run not to contend with those before me, but follow to applaud them.

  30. I honour them for doing this, and I applaud them, especially if they did violence to their own feelings of courtesy and urbanity in doing so.

  31. We did not like to applaud at this, but we made a subdued drumming with our heels, and uttered a sort of murmurous assent to a noble and far from obvious proposition.

  32. And as I send you thus with worms to dwell, Angels applaud it as a deed done well.

  33. This being the case, they ought to pardon a writer, if not applaud him, for endeavoring to inculcate this belief.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "applaud" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accede; accept; acclaim; acquiesce; agree; applaud; approve; assent; buy; cheer; clap; commend; compliment; comply; consent; countenance; cry; eulogize; extol; glorify; hail; hooray; hurrah; nod; praise; rave; receive; recommend; root; shout; support; welcome; yell; yes