Search Details

Word: clapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Game start, Boston: We all stand and the men remove their hats. Some group sings the national anthem with embellishments better left to one of the innumerable pop/rock stations. We clap anyway...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

Game start, Boise: We all stand and the men remove their hats. Someone sings the national anthem with embellishments better left to one of the innumerable country stations. We clap anyway...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

...middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on the board. We clap...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

Inning four, Boise: Casey Childs, a rookie Hawk with a .000 batting average, gets walked and scores. We clap, a little disappointed that he hasn't gotten a number for his average...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

Inning nine, Boise: Players from the other team, realizing they are going to be beaten by about 10 runs, begin to flirt politely with any young women sitting in first base box seats. When the Hawks wrap it up 14-5, we clap but the loudspeaker is silent--the 10 p.m. noise ordnance has kicked...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | Next