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Sentences with applause

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  • They greeted him with thunderous applause.
  • Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. A flush of colour sprang to Holmes's pale cheeks, and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage of his audience. It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.
  • French fashion designer Francois Eymeric acknowledges applause with models at the end of his Haute Couture 2009-2010 fashion collection.
  • British designer Vivienne Westwood accepts applause at the conclusion of her show.
  • Not wild celebratory cheering, because victory was now assured, but a kind of slower, more smiling applause, really warm.
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