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How to use the word APPLAUSE in a Sentence?

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Triangulation is a risky game because if you get the language off, you may commit yourself in a campaign to a line that makes no sense when you are governing, this is one of the hardest problems for newcomers and challengers when they are campaigning for president. By giving applause lines that work for the narrow segments of ideologically hardened factions that they are trying to win over for the primary, they can lock themselves into policy positions that are not sound when they actually win.

Peter Feaver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Oh, how I wish Giovanni and Paolo could see the applause and raised hands of the people of Palermo after the arrest, it is a big step towards a complete democracy.

Maria Falcone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It didn't bother me, you know, it's a hostile environment, it always has been. I didn't expect them to give a round of applause every once in a while.

Russell Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All of these things are positions that might get you applause at a Working Families Party rally or get you the endorsement of AOC or Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, but when you look across the state, that is not where 50 +1 of the state sits.

Ben Voelkel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause. - Padme Amidala - Tory MPs have voted down a bid to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas giants that could save families £600. Despite Brits facing a cost of living crisis, Conservatives rejected a Labour amendment to the Queen's Speech backing a one-off levy on North Sea firms to help struggling Brits. MPs rejected the move by 310 votes to 248, and not one Tory MP backed it.

Padme Amidala

added by abduls.27449
1 year ago

He successfully got applause for doing something that meant nothing and I think that’s kind of like the epitome of what the NFL has become. They scrawled ‘end racism’ in the end zone but they will kick Black people out of the league for talking about or pointing at the problem that racism gives America, right? So I think he did it but it doesn’t mean anything. It’s too late now.

Columnist Michael Harriot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're going to be teenagers soon. I need to be with them, i'll be 76 [when the tour is over]. I don't know how much time I have left on this earth after that. You know, I've had enough applause. I don't want to keep traveling. I don't want to be away from my family.

Elton John

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I knew it was on target but didn’t see it go in, i heard the applause, so I knew it went in.

Satoshi Kodaira

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It ends and, it is like he had just completed a backflip and he’s waiting for the applause, at which point everyone looks to me to express the group reaction. I was like, ‘It was OK. Cool. Thanks. We should talk about it. That’s not how we pictured the character.'.

Seth Rogen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was kind of having a little fun with it, thanks, tipping the cap to the silence, but to be fair, Dustin Johnson's caddie, his brother, he kind of gave me a little round of applause there. So the guys were having a bit of fun with the unique environment that we were dealing with.

Justin Rose

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The concerts we recorded happened without the public. It was weird, it was surprising, for us and for the pianists. They were playing and there was no audience, no applause at the end.

Andrzej Matusiak

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Thank you for the applause, I would like send a round of applause back to you all for coping so well with the coronavirus, i will join the effort to overcome the corona by washing my hands diligently. Happy to be home.

Bong Joon-ho

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Can we give President Trump a round of applause, that man loves America, and he loves Louisiana. He came down here three times specifically to try to help us.

Eddie Rispone

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Well, I can tell you, walking into the store... it was a little bit intimidating. A lot of mixed emotions, and through this process of rebuilding and getting the store put back together, you can see the laughter, the smiles and the applause between each other and support. That's what really makes it a good recovery.

Robert Evans

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Confiscation with compensation, as I would call it, a number of Democratic candidates are in favor of it. Kamala Harris says Kamala Harris is, Cory Booker said Cory Booker's in favor. Beto O'Rourke made an impassioned case to the audience at the New Hampshire Democratic Convention and drew cheers and applause. This is a risky idea, but it reflects the growing appetite among Democrats to take far-reaching steps to control guns, not only new sales but to take existing military-style weapons off the street.

Sahil Kapur

Found on CNN
4 years ago

( Getty) The third film of 2021, after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which director Scott Derrickson said will be Marvels first horror movie, is perhaps the most anticipated, however : Thor 4. Portman, who played Jane in the first two Thor films, will be remerging as the female Thor. She ran out on stage to thunderous applause and accepted the hammer from a kneeling Taika Waititi. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, who alluded to Tessa Thompson character, Valkyrie, identifying as LGBTQ, will also be returning for the Waititi-directed Thor : Love and Thunder, which is set for release on Nov. 2, 2021. As new king [ of Asgard ], Tessa Thompson needs to find Tessa Thompson queen, that will be the first order of business !

Tessa Thompson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Give yourself a round of applause, you made the Marvel Universe happen and we couldnt be more grateful.

Joe Russo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

The president of the United States is declaring a national emergency to honor an applause line in a rally, if the Congress rolls over on this, the president is likely to do it again.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What will happen next Sunday is Centre Court will be packed for the men's final and I'm sure people will be able to follow World Cup final, it's not unheard of for there to be a ripple of applause or a shout when something special happens in a football tournament, and I'm sure everybody will understand if it does.

Richard Lewis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's an occasion for one-handed applause because this should have happened all along.

Bruce Schaller

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The applause tells the story, but Goodell should have squashed it immediately and said, ‘We’re in the process of educating players.’ CTE is real. Adams is 20-something years old, stir crazy right now, in the New York spotlight. I don’t blame him for saying that. But to ignore CTE is to ignore the facts. That’s not the message the NFL wants.

Glenn Foley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When the governor announced the Tennessee Reconnect in his state of the state address, I was watching, that was one of the points of applause.

Rick Locker

Found on CNN
7 years ago

To die on stage is to take to the grave what you most love in this life, your presence, your affection, your respect and your applause.

Alejandro Fernandez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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