What's the difference between applaud and extol?

Applaud


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign.
  • (v. t.) To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve.
  • (v. i.) To express approbation loudly or significantly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
  • (2) To dye for … England's Joe Hart applauds fans after the Costa Rica game; their response to his hair is not pictured.
  • (3) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
  • (4) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
  • (5) Applauded off at half-time, Villa carried on where they left off and struck twice in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
  • (6) Having announced its first carbon target shortly before the conference , China's negotiators hoped the event would be a chance for the world to applaud the progress the country has made to improve efficiency and boost renewable energy.
  • (7) In 2012, politicians in the Welsh Assembly applauded its success in tackling financial exclusion in south-east Wales, noting that the most affordable credit alternative to MoneyLine required the borrower to pay back £82 for every £100 lent whereas MoneyLine charged between £19 and £35 for every £100 lent [link].
  • (8) Barbara Frost, WaterAid’s chief executive, said: “We welcome the agreement, the work of member state negotiators to get here and, most significantly, the overarching commitment to end extreme poverty through sustainable development by 2030.” Dominic Haslam, director of policy at Sightsavers, applauded the goals for including specific targets to improve access to employment, education and transport for people with disabilities.
  • (9) Daisy just wanted to work and whenever she got cast in anything we all applauded.” His student film-makers were really excited seeing her pop up on Casualty, he says; imagine how they will feel when they see her lead the new Star Wars film.
  • (10) But in Vietnam many white soldiers flagrantly applauded his murder.
  • (11) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
  • (12) The minister for culture, media and sport, Andy Burnham, was applauded when he told the crowd the 96 fans who died would never be forgotten.
  • (13) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
  • (14) Ms Williams's name will already be familiar to many gay rights campaigners courtesy of a memorable speech on same-sex relationships, in which she applauded Jamaica's criminalisation of what her sect considers a curable aberration, a diagnosis she did not hesitate to apply to Tom Daly.
  • (15) Russia Aligned to the Warsaw Pact bloc Sometimes you just have to applaud Russia's diplomatic genius.
  • (16) This is the EU making clear that economic success is not to be applauded but to be punished.
  • (17) It is essential that the police build and maintain the confidence of ethnic and other minority communities, and I applaud their determination to do so.
  • (18) The senator was present at a vigil, later on Friday, when hundreds of people cheered and applauded at repeated calls for the flag to be removed from state buildings.
  • (19) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
  • (20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.

Extol


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.
  • (v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, most of the eulogies now being written in his memory are extolling him as a man of peace.
  • (2) State intervention was the right policy, but bankers and their shareholders should have been left to enjoy the downside of the free markets whose merits they had extolled for so long.
  • (3) He extolls the virtues of the new Star Trek movie(!)
  • (4) But he went further than just tolling its end: he extolled its demise.
  • (5) Only human strawman Ann Coulter could find any equivalency between extoling the virtues of one’s genitals and claiming someone else’s as yours to do with as you please – and in any case, that line (from Feeling Myself) was delivered by Nicki Minaj.
  • (6) This thread of social Christianity extolled a reconciliation of the church and the republic in the name of a third way between capitalism and socialism.
  • (7) He has a well known soft spot for Middlemarch, and spent a good chunk of a speech at Brighton College in May extolling the virtues of teaching Shakespeare, Dickens, Tennyson, Blake and Eliot to primary pupils.
  • (8) Superstars where they attended college, hopefuls suddenly find themselves in unusual situations – as lambs in the middle of an Indianapolis field, being poked, prodded, measured and assessed; then as masters and conquerors, listening to famous GMs and coaches playing salesmen and extolling the virtues of their organisation.
  • (9) After a year in which the sale of Channel 5 and All3Media (the biggest remaining UK-owned independent producer) to US media conglomerates has raised questions about the increasing American dominance of British commercial TV, Lee is perhaps unsurprisingly keen to extol the virtues of the industry’s ever closer transatlantic ties.
  • (10) There is even a section on the museum’s website extolling the virtues of sketching, summoning the wise words of Le Corbusier.
  • (11) I tell Specter how proudly Remnick told me of his triumph in the Hackathlon, and that I wondered afterwards what he meant by extolling such bare-faced bad writing.
  • (12) "The rash of public offices in our towns and cities says more about our desire to extol the brands of our organisations than it does about our commitment to better services for clients and citizens," he said.
  • (13) Therefore politicians like me, who think this could be the biggest idea for teaching for generations, may extol the virtues and possible roles of a potential professional body but cannot, however much we would like to, "pledge" to set one up, or anything about it or the roles it could perform as part of a manifesto.
  • (14) Mindfulness, the practice of sitting still and focusing on your breath and thoughts, has surged in popularity over the last few years, with a boom in apps, online courses, books and articles extolling its virtues.
  • (15) During a recent appearance on BBC's Question Time , Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, extolled the importance of encouraging creativity in schools.
  • (16) I cringe when I hear our political leadership deliver yet another speech extolling a commitment to fighting extremism, yet in almost the time it takes to draw their next breath, go on to announce cuts to community services groups, the kind of organisations whose roles are vital in addressing the risk factors that leave one vulnerable to extremism.
  • (17) A straight couple extolled friends as models of evangelism, because they invited their son’s gay partner home for Christmas.
  • (18) China is meanwhile extolling the virtues of a free trade area in Asia Pacific .
  • (19) An honest republican ought to be prepared to extol the merits of the republican system.
  • (20) In vain, I try to extol the wonders of putting your cross in the requisite box.