(n.) The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was followed by loud applause for Gündogan and De Bruyne, when each was later taken off.
(2) Iranians have represented culture & civilization for millennia.” At the Oscars, Ansari read Farhadi’s message to the audience’s applause.
(3) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
(4) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(5) Doing the decent thing has guaranteed them an avalanche of applause when next they play at Goodison - in blue or red."
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frank Lampard acknowledges the applause of fans as he enters the field to warm up.
(7) The prime minister didn’t look entirely comfortable with the levels of applause his chancellor was getting.
(8) "The destiny you seek lies in Europe," McCain told the crowd, to rapturous applause.
(9) Abbott and McDonnell won applause by opposing the privatisation of public services while David Miliband defended the principle of third sector providers being able to provide some health services.
(10) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(11) But there was much applause for Ken Loach , another surprise victor, this year of the Jury Prize (which ranks just below the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix).
(12) "Thank you for coming, despite some of the hiccups we have had," Tutu said to laughter and applause at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
(13) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
(14) Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change,” the pope said, decrying a system that “has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.“ “This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable The Earth itself – our sister, Mother Earth, as Saint Francis would say – also finds it intolerable,” he said in an hour-long speech that was interrupted by applause and cheering dozens of times.
(15) As a small group of Abbado's relatives, including two of his children, looked on, Barenboim, La Scala's current music director, appeared quietly moved as the commemorative performance ended after about 20 minutes to dignified applause from the piazza.
(16) There is a ripple of applause and the odd cheer each time.
(17) "I got my constitution here," he said to a round of applause.
(18) So should you," he shot back, earning laughs and applause.
(19) To applause, she warned that the UK government should be under no illusions over the decisions that would be made.
(20) Atlético’s supporters had broken into spontaneous applause for their team as soon as Bale put Carlo Ancelotti’s side ahead, and the ovation did not stop even when the game ran away from them and the score started to feel like a deception.
Laudation
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This publication contains a short life story and a laudation of the work of Ernst Friedrich Gurlt, which was active at the Veterinary School at Berlin more than a half century, from 1819 to 1870.
(2) His oath followed a laudation by the deputy head of the constitutional court, Maher Sami, in which Sami described Sisi as a "rebel soldier", and strived to present him as a revolutionary hero rather than as the mastermind of a controversial coup.