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How to use clapper in a sentence

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A figure grasps the hose, swings back and forth like the clapper of a bell and finally bounds high above the floor.
At the bottom of the bell, a white silhouette of a boy holds a rope entwined to the clapper.
The town crier, in trying to ring out the Prince's arrival, found the clapper of his bell stuck fast.
The St. Peter's bell, 24 tons in weight and with a clapper which alone weighs 16 metric hundredweight, is the largest swinging bell in the world.
These clapper boards are for use with chinagraph pencils or pre-written white gaffer tape which you can keep on the back of the slate.
The percentage involvement reflects a hierarchy, so the director of photography has more points than the clapper loader.
I drew forth the bell Meryth had given me, and gently let the clapper fall against the bronze wall of it.
The clapper was a clear blue, sapphire about an inch long, dangling a tiny bit from the bell itself.
Philadelphia will on Thursday noon send the clapper of the old bell resoundingly against its cracked sides.
In fact the clapper extends beyond the mouth of the bell and, rather than a handle, has a pierced peg argent, means that it would originally have been suspended.
When he returned to England he opened a photographic studio in Soho before working as a clapper boy at Sound City and as a focus puller and camera operator at Elstree.
A newer version of the clapper is a digital slate that uses light-emitting diodes and an audio link to synchronize film and tape.
Using a clean piece of clothw ipe the surface of the rubber seats on the sw inging clapper, also the tin seats in the valve.
My aunt tells me a thick rope hung down from the clapper, to be rung by the children of the house every time one of them descended the stairs.
Let bronze clapper down on its seat making sure that the rubber air ring presses evenly all around the air seat.
Just click on the mood panel and type, paste, or click the clapper board icon.
Before the advent of batteries or electricity bell pushes were always dome shaped and had a clockwork mechanism that activated a clapper, which struck the inside of the dome.
Instead, clapper responded with an egregious falsehood, if not an outright lie.
At least one U.S. intelligence official says that clapper might have gotten just a bit ahead of his skis.
Apply all of the above to Scotland's latest ambassador to the world of red carpets and clapper boards, along with a prevailing air of not quite being there.
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Only this morning she keeps on at me wi' her questions like the clapper o' a bell.
On examining the belfry, it was discovered that some persons had carried off the clapper of the bell.
There was nothing for it but to tie a handkerchief round the clapper of the bell.
My heart beat in my temples like the clapper of an alarm-bell.
The first shock of the clapper and the brazen wall made the framework upon which it was mounted quiver.
The long beam continued to belabor the door, at regular intervals, like the clapper of a bell, the stones to rain down, the door to groan.
This completes the circuit again and the clapper is pulled down.
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