How to Use clapper in a Sentence

clapper

noun

• But now the clapper had been hung in a bell that was too big for it.
  — Benjamin Balint, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Prather came down the stairs, and ducked under the bell to remove the clapper.
  — Lynn Ischay, cleveland.com, 27 May 2017
• The video was taken during the breeding season, and the clapper is a male.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• Zhang Shimin kept the beat on a bell and clapper while sprawled out on the floor with a look of utter contentment.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Some of it is so large that the rings vibrate from the impact for decades, like a bell struck by a cosmic clapper.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2017
• There were two sandhill cranes in Hanson and two clapper rails in Fairhaven.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• After ringing so long, and so loudly, the clapper fell off.
  — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2016
• Fun fact: No one living today has ever heard the bell ring freely with its clapper.
  — Juliet Izon, Country Living, 15 Nov. 2018
• On Friday, as Terry reached for the clapper, her hand trembled.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
• Music tones are produced by pressing on rows of wood batons and pedals that swing the clappers against the bells.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2020
• Once set up there and with midnight long since passed, the fans pulled out vuvuzelas, bells, whistles and clappers, and began to roar and chant pro-Iran songs.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• Questlove of The Roots took the clappers and submarine shakers in this classroom-style group, while Black Thought took tambourine.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• As part of their restoration, the bells will get new clappers — a piece of iron that hangs inside the bell to create a tone — as well as headstocks, Sunderlin said.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• Importantly, the clapper would be tightly chained to the side of the bell until women gained voting rights.
  — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
• When the clapper was later stolen, students continued to ring it by pounding it with sledge hammers.
  — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2017
• And Wyden himself has called out clapper for all this repeatedly.
  — Fox News, 24 May 2018
• The pop artist tackled the lemon shaker and took lead vocals; her host Jimmy Fallon tried his hand at the wood block, bass drum and Casio keyboard; and Questlove looked at ease on the hand clappers.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2018
• The freeing of the clapper to do its hard work was indicative of the accomplishments of countless Pennsylvania women in the next five score years.
  — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
• Those waves eventually hit the star’s surface layer, like a clapper ringing a bell.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
• The death of the sovereign is a rare occasion when fully muffled bells are sounded — a technique to create an echo by fitting pads to both sides of the bell clapper.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
• Look at clapper - a proven liar, under oath, repeatedly, not a single charge ever brought against him.
  — Fox News, 8 May 2018
• For nearly half a century, the former Vice President has been a hand-holder and a hugger, a back-slapper and shoulder-clapper.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 16 Apr. 2020
• There’s no clapper in the addition to the sculpture garden, which features a bell that was repurposed after it was rejected by a German church that didn’t like its tone.
  — Chris Hewitt, Twin Cities, 6 June 2017
• He was too easily derided as a clapper on the sidelines and portrayed as an ineffective puppet of the owner.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
• It was hidden behind a souvenir movie director’s clapper board.
  — Lisa Arthur, www.sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Another artifact, a black-and-white clapper board used on the set of the film adaptation of Cabaret, highlights the close connections between Broadway and Hollywood.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
• Ringo led from the top on vocals and playing a tiny three-piece drum kit while the late-night show’s host took duties on a Casio keyboard, wooden block and kazoo, as Questlove showed his talents on clappers and, yep, a Submarine shaker.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2019
• There, equipment was installed so the bell stays stationary and is rung by a moving internal clapper that is controlled electronically by a switch in the sacristy, Flanagan said.
  — Leonor Vivanco-Prengaman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Buttigieg supporters, wearing bright yellow, had plastic hand-clapper noisemakers that sounded like the pitter-patter of a rainstorm.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
• According to René Spielmann, president of Glockengiesserei Rüetschi bell company, the new generation of bell clappers are quieter.
  — Helena Bachmann, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Aug 2024