7 sentences with 'applauded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word applauded and other words derived from it.
• « When Jon played the last note, the audience rose to their feet and applauded with great excitement. »
• « Other Britons applauded what they saw as the manly defence of liberty by their counterparts in the colonies. »
• « Jefferson had applauded the French Revolution, even when the French republic instituted the Terror to ensure that the monarchy would not return. However, in 1799 he had rejected the cause of France because of his opposition to Napoleon's seizure of power and the creation of a dictatorship. »
• « But the vast majority of citizens applauded the increase in the size of the republic. For slaveholders, the new western lands would be a boon; for slaves, the Louisiana Purchase threatened to further entrench their suffering. »
• « Southern expansionists had led the drive to add more territory to the United States. They applauded the Louisiana Purchase and fervently supported Indian removal, the annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War. »
• « Southern annexationists, however, applauded the effort to take Cuba. The Louisiana legislature in 1854 called on the federal government to take decisive action, and John Quitman, former governor of Mississippi, raised money from slaveholders to finance efforts to seize the island. »