Flay me an ape incontinent, and clap him to the Duke's breast!
Then,' says he sulkily, 'the first fire we light by the wayside, clap thou on the music box!
He wanted to curse and swear, and had to clap his hands on his mouth to prevent it.
With conscience keen from exercise, And chronic fear of compromise, You check the free play of your rhymes, to clap A moral underneath, and spring it like a trap.
He would blush, stammer, clap his mouth shut, then hurry away.
So they could laugh and clap to hear how Sayer and Braley had crushed the spirit out of two young Jews in front of fifty other freshmen?
The artificial lake is stocked with tame carp, which come crowding to the side when visitors clap their hands, in the expectation of being fed.
The villagers of Assababad are simple-hearted people, and both men and women clap their hands like delighted children to have so rare a novelty suddenly appear upon the scene of their usually humdrum and uneventful lives.
About an hour after a loud clap of thunder awakened Fergus, and before it had died away he heard three knocks at the door.
The door was torn from its hinges and with a clap fell towards the outside flat on the road.
When they hear a clap coming they all wery religiously signe theyr forfronts and their breast wt the signe of the cross, in the wertue of which they are confident that clap can do them no scaith.
She gets notice of it, causes clap him fast and lay him prisoner.
You would become as frivolous as I," added he after a little pause, in which he gave a gentle clap on Wilhelm's shoulder.
Cunningham's shot took that fellow in the leg, for we saw him clap his hand to his right one, just above the knee, and go limping away out of sight.
I'll have to shove that there gag back into yer mouth if you don't clap a stopper on that tongue of yours.
In a few seconds, this causes his hands to reach the bottom, and his companion therefore sits ready to clap his hands to the top and continue the motion till they also come down, and he in turn is relieved by the first.
O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
She felt so glad to be in the road that she began to jump about and to clap her little hands.
Mary thought how very nice it would be if only it was a loaf of bread, so that she might eat it, when suddenly she seemed to hear a loudclap of thunder and the day turned into night.
Clap hands, clap hands, Hie Tommy Randy, Did you see my good man?
On the first of February in this year, they appeared at the Covent-Garden theatre, to see the tragedy of Oroonok; where they were received with a loud clap of applause, which they returned with a genteel bow.
Nor was it a clap of thunder, unless I admit that a clap of thunder can, be occult and silent, strange and gentle.
A wild desire seized him to wring that insolent head from its shoulders, and he was already raising his hands to clap for the servants.
Don't hesitate; clapmy name on the backs of the certificates yourself.
Ere she left the temple, Semiramis did not fail to clap her hands, and summon Assarac to her presence.
See that they water not my horse till he is cool; and, Sethos, let not man nor woman come near me till I clap my hands.
The scroll lies where all who pass may read, and when the Great Queen has studied it enough, if, standing in this spot, she will but clap her hands thus, those shall be within call who can summon me to her presence without delay.
Yes, it is strange--a clap of thunder in November.
Then suddenly there is a single thunder-clap over my head.
It sounded like a clapof thunder, and I started right up an eend.
I war out airly in the spring with my rifle on the banks of the Tennessee, making up my opinion about matters and things in general, when all of a sudden I heard a clap of thunder, and that sot me a thinking.
Then why not crawl forward and clap on the forecastle-hatch?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
