How to use in-sentence of “applause”:
+ Someone who liked one of the singers and wanted them to have lots of applause would pay a group of people to sit near the back of the opera house and to clap and shout enthusiastically whenever that singer had finished a song.
+ At Bayreuth, it has become tradition that there is to be no applause after the first act of the opera.
+ After the shouting, he rings the bell again and waves the Flag of Mexico to the applause of the crowd in the Plaza de la Constitución.
+ Eventually, after tumultuous applause from the pit, the curtain reopened and Siddons was discovered sitting in her own clothes and character – whereupon she made an emotional farewell speech to the audience lasting eight minutes.
+ Female dancers often curtsey at the end of a performance to show thanks or acknowledge applause from the audience.