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Meanings of clapper in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "tongue"
Examples for "tongue"
1
Engywook's tongue went right to work: What have you seen and done?
2
It's very tongue-in-cheek social comment but it's still social comment, he said.
3
The rest of the conversation was carried on in the same tongue.
4
Studies had found that tip-of-the-tongue experiences are more common among older people.
5
He claims, tongue-in-cheek, that he could patent such a product next year.
1
He speaks the language of Mota, the lingua franca here, you know.
2
LANGUAGES: The official language is Portuguese but Portuguese-based creole is the lingua franca.
3
Every 10 minutes or so, the signs change from one lingua to the other.
4
Arabic was, for a time, the lingua franca of science.
5
They are very much the lingua franca of evidence-based medicine.
1
The reference to the "glossa of Theotypas" is part of the fiction.
Usage of clapper in anglès
1
My heart beat in my temples like the clapper of an alarm-bell.
2
Those two men understood each other as the clapper understands the bell.
3
The Indian bell-ringer rings them by a rope fastened to each clapper.
4
Brock called on him, started the video camera, clapped his imaginary clapper.
5
Its weight is thirty-two thousand pounds-theclapper alone weighing a thousand pounds.
6
Why are the rooks afraid of the little boy with the clapper?
7
And how was it that the clapper seemed to strike so fast?
8
You notice those little drops of metal on top of the clapper?
9
He had unscrewed the clapper and thrown it out of the window.
10
Eating was still in progress when the wooden clapper announced the recreation hour.
11
Two paper tendrils, also accordion-pleated, hung down from the clapper of the bell.
12
On this wire he hung his cowbell and hooked the little clapper inside.
13
The rhythmic clapper of oars roused Marguerite from this trance-like swoon.
14
A clapper of split bamboo is sometimes made to scare away the maya.
15
A bad tongue is not the clapper of a good heart.
16
He was not able to fit a clapper to the bell.
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Clapper through the time
Clapper across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common