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
• That’s a clapper board, also known as a clapboard, and by many other names.
  — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
• The video was taken during the breeding season, and the clapper is a male.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Think of the brain as a large church bell and the TMS device as the clapper.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
• 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
• When Ferguson pushes down on a key, a wire causes the clapper to hit the side of the bell.
  — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Additionally, it is designed with a large clapper, so the sound should be stronger.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2024
• On Friday, as Terry reached for the clapper, her hand trembled.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
• And Wyden himself has called out clapper for all this repeatedly.
  — Fox News, 24 May 2018
• Cowbells with wood or metal clappers are shaken to produce higher tones.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Those waves eventually hit the star’s surface layer, like a clapper ringing a bell.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
• Look at clapper - a proven liar, under oath, repeatedly, not a single charge ever brought against him.
  — Fox News, 8 May 2018
• It was hidden behind a souvenir movie director’s clapper board.
  — Lisa Arthur, www.sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Importantly, the clapper would be tightly chained to the side of the bell until women gained voting rights.
  — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
• The swinging bronze bell resonates with each strike of the clapper, filling the small stone tower with an undulating hum.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
• Several men held clapper sticks made of elderberry wood and began tapping a rhythm.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• No bigger than at 5-2 in the tiebreak, when Shelton unleashed a forehand clapper off the return down the line.
  — Lukas Weese, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Assuming the role of a human clapper, Holzinger struck its lip again and again, sending a sonorous peal across the Biennale grounds.
  — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• MacKinnon returned for four gutsy third-period shifts after blocking that Theodore clapper with his right knee, but was a shell of his usual self.
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 26 May 2026