How to Use applaud in a Sentence
applaud
verb
- I applaud their efforts to clean up the city, but they must do more.
- We applaud the decision to lower taxes.
- Rather than being criticized for her honesty, she should be applauded for it.
- The audience stood and applauded her performance.
- Everyone applauded the graduates as they entered the auditorium.
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The Free Jacks head over to the stands and applaud their fans.
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BostonGlobe.com,
20 May 2021
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The boy gave him a quick kiss on the lips as the crowd laughed and applauded.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2023
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In the crowd, his teen-age son, Gus, applauded and cried.
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Molly Fischer,
The New Yorker,
1 Oct. 2024
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The crowd applauded, Ian Happ stepped into the box against Webb, and the game went on.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2024
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These are the types of announcements that are easy to stand and applaud.
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Derek Newton,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2021
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Sometimes, the fans stood and applauded as the pitcher walked off the field.
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Letters To The Editor,
Washington Post,
23 July 2024
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There hasn’t been much to applaud in the first four months of the Biden presidency.
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James Freeman,
WSJ,
24 May 2021
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In Houston, nobody seems to applaud unless the hands on the scoreboard start to clap.
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Richard Goldstein,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2024
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The sellout crowd began to applaud as soon as the first image of Cassidy popped on the board.
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Kevin Paul Dupont,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 Dec. 2022
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Some applaud the changes, and are ready to return to some normalcy.
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Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2022
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Many of the comments applaud the company for taking the stand.
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Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
1 Mar. 2022
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The songs took the world by storm with her fans applauding her move to country music.
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Sara Vallone,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2024
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Link wraps the last bit of bandage around the mummy known as Sam, and everyone in the OR applauds a job well done.
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Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
5 May 2023
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And the worst part is most people around me were applauding his garbage sermon.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
24 Aug. 2023
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The crowd applauded the moment Kevin de León walked up.
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Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Oct. 2023
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The crowd applauded and whistled; Utkin tipped his cap.
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Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
31 July 2023
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Home players stayed on the pitch a long while afterwards to applaud all four corners of the ground.
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Dermot Corrigan,
The Athletic,
24 Nov. 2024
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The students listen to him and applaud; they are used to men who speak in such ways with guns slung over their shoulders.
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Jeffrey Fleishman,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Nov. 2023
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The lil dude even did a touchdown dance in his wheelchair that had the guys applauding and cracking up.
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The Tennessean,
20 Dec. 2024
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And perhaps if Harbaugh came out and said the same thing, people would applaud, too.
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Mitch Albom,
Detroit Free Press,
5 Feb. 2022
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But Kelly, a reliever for the Dodgers, was among the pitchers to applaud the new practice.
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New York Times,
25 June 2021
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Swift, whose endurance has been applauded throughout the tour, still had 25 songs to go on that night’s 45-song setlist.
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Brian Anthony Hernandez,
Men's Health,
17 Aug. 2023
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Instead, the mayor and his wife will applaud the participants at the end of the parade route.
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Deepti Hajela,
ajc,
7 July 2021
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Space travel enthusiasts have applauded his goal of one day placing a man on Mars.
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Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
21 Dec. 2024
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Arizona’s attorney general wants a judge to declare the farm a public nuisance to pare back its use, a move that many outside the water business have applauded.
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Joanna Allhands,
The Arizona Republic,
17 Dec. 2024
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