“How on earth could we have put this scheming, mendacious little man and his miserable claque back in office for another three years?”

“No claque of paid liars can cheapen the sacrifice and nobility of the cause.”

“Still, with a sycophantic media claque in close support, his is the dominant voice in public discourse.”

“I am going to see the new piece Pomps and Vanities is bringing out, and I want you as a sort of claqueur.”

“Lucien fancied that he must be dreaming when he heard a claqueur appraising a writer's value.”

“In any case, the trunkmaker was a sort of foreshadowing of the claqueur.”

“The manager of a theatre sends an order for any number of claqueurs.”

“Before enlisting he had been the chief of a gang of claqueurs, whose business it was to lead the applause, or it might be, the hissing at the theatres of Rome.”

“Anglican divines then, however innately uncompetitive, resembled today's racehorses or pop singers in the passionate claques they acquired.”