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For CLAP, below is one of 116 sentences:
The terrible secret was to be concealed till it burst, like a clap of thunder, over the head of the guilty.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLAP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clap
 v.  applaud; slap; strike together with a sharp sound, as one hard surface on another
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  He had just found his clap of thunder.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
2  All at once a heavily laden carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
3  All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a clap of thunder.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS
4  The terrible secret was to be concealed till it burst, like a clap of thunder, over the head of the guilty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
5  And, mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart; she don't clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
6  At this moment there was a tremendous clap of thunder, accompanied by a flash of lightning so vivid, that it quite eclipsed the light of the lamp.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
7  At the same moment, and in the midst of the terrifying silence which usually follows a clap of thunder, they heard a knocking at the door.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
8  He smoked his pipe as we went along, and sometimes stopped to clap me on the shoulder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
9  My aunt, with one clap of her hands, and one look through her spectacles, immediately went into hysterics, for the first and only time in all my knowledge of her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
10  However, his thoughts were wholly occupied with his own subject, so much so that not until a loud clap of thunder awoke him from his reverie did he glance around him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
11  And everybody will grin and clap his hands.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
12  She felt as if she had solid ground under her feet again, and when Mr. Bhaer paused, outtalked but not one whit convinced, Jo wanted to clap her hands and thank him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
13  There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
14  I should like to see him clapped down in a third class carriage on the Underground, and asked to give the trades of all his fellow-travellers.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
15  He clapped till his palms stung.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  You cannot clap with one hand.
2  My eyes have shallow sea land old clap vita etched a bay miss.
3  "Fairfax will smile you a calm welcome, to be sure," said I; "and little Adele will clap her hands and jump to see you: but you know very well you are thinking of another than they, and that he is not thinking of you."
4  The nursery teacher clapped her hands to attract the children's attention.
5  The audience clapped enthusiastically and called for more.
6  At the end of the concert, the audience stood and clapped.
7  The judge clapped him in prison before he had had time to explain.
8  They clapped together a stage so that they could have somewhere to perform.
9  The actors clapped together a stage so that they could have room to perform.
10  I clapped Mark on the shoulder.
11  I now clapped my hands in sudden joy -- my pulse bounded, my vein thrilled.
12  Then, you know, they clapped them away in a lunatic asylum.
13  I now clapped my hands in sudden joy--my pulse bounded, my veins thrilled.
14  The audience began clapping and cheering.
15  The audience was whooping and clapping.