How to Use claptrap in a Sentence

claptrap

noun

• I'm tired of hearing all that claptrap about how hard her life is.
• His entire speech was nothing but claptrap.
• These are the people, rather than the nation, to whom Truss is appealing with her tax-cutting claptrap.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• His claim about the female body is complete claptrap, nonsense.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2012
• Some cosmic claptrap is invoked, and the four are allowed back to Earth for one final concert.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
• And both their video ads on social media and the speeches at their convention were devoid of Marxist claptrap.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• The wild likes to wring out all unnecessary claptrap and excess baggage until you’re left naked and exalted and clinging to the truth.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
• His style is more rooted in George Jones than the bro-country and hick-hop claptrap that until recently dominated the airwaves.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Given Stephens’ record of dispensing unfounded claptrap, detailed above, to ask the question is to answer it.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• And jettisoning silly claptrap about good guys and bad guys, right and wrong, and a clear, easily definable line that demarcates it all.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 4 May 2021
• Nor can the novelist answer why liberals have granted this claptrap such power.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
• This defense is the most morally and ethically shallow claptrap offered up to public discourse since Trump took office.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Apr. 2017
• This is not just culture war claptrap about a heretofore obscure academic theory.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 23 June 2021
• The speculations are never heavy-handed or bogged down with obscure philosophic claptrap.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• This is not some traditional sentimental claptrap about a family saying goodbye to the old homestead.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2022
• Conspiracy claptrap inspired by right-wing radio hosts.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• Nolan’s main argument—for a streaming company that still commits in some way to the cinema experience—is not some elitist claptrap, but a reasonable plea from an artist who believes that movies are best enjoyed, if possible, in movie theaters.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 July 2017
• All this claptrap offends the romantic ethnicity being peddled, especially the tenor of Irish heritage that Branagh’s remote style misrepresents in nearly every scene.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
• No outside controversial claptrap allowed during Our Time.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2021
• This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• Something about marginal utility, blah blah, and some Keynesian claptrap about wondrous government spending.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 12 July 2020
• For all the claptrap Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have spouted about the filibuster facilitating bipartisan compromise, their opposition to eliminating it is most intelligible as a matter of material politics.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• Because for all the claptrap Manchin and Sinema have spouted about the filibuster facilitating bipartisan compromise and building unity, their opposition to eliminating it is most intelligible as a matter of material politics.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• I'm tired of hearing all that claptrap about how hard her life is.
• His entire speech was nothing but claptrap.
• These are the people, rather than the nation, to whom Truss is appealing with her tax-cutting claptrap.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• His claim about the female body is complete claptrap, nonsense.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2012
• Some cosmic claptrap is invoked, and the four are allowed back to Earth for one final concert.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
• And both their video ads on social media and the speeches at their convention were devoid of Marxist claptrap.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• The wild likes to wring out all unnecessary claptrap and excess baggage until you’re left naked and exalted and clinging to the truth.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024