How to Use clap back in a Sentence
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Fans booed as Cargill clapped back.
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Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
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Navarro, who is from Nicaragua, clapped back.
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Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Dec. 2025
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Sanders clapped back by telling Hill not to drop any passes.
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David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
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Glen Powell isn’t afraid to clap back at his haters — even his mom!
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Bailey Richards,
Peoplemag,
3 Feb. 2024
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This is not the first time Gilbert has clapped back at Kelly.
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Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Nov. 2025
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Doja Cat swiftly clapped back in the same thread.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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But that feeling wore off quickly, replaced by a plan to clap back.
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Praveena Somasundaram,
Washington Post,
23 Mar. 2023
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This is hardly Jessie’s first time clapping back at mom-shamers.
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Korin Miller,
Women's Health,
15 June 2023
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But she’s found a hilarious way to clap back.
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Melina Khan,
USA Today,
11 Dec. 2025
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Shields claps back, denies the affair, and even jokes about a boxing match.
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Jenna Prestininzi,
Detroit Free Press,
13 Dec. 2024
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Noname then clapped back with her own, but later apologized for it.
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Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
8 Apr. 2024
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And even if that’s true, the internet wasted no time clapping back.
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Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Each woman, in her own way, clapped back at high-profile critics who made headlines this week.
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Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2024
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Ballet and opera companies clapped back.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Mar. 2026
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The people that are doing this stuff are truly trying to get a rise out of you and any kind of clap back.
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Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 2025
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The thing that is really remarkable to me is that Ava doesn’t clap back.
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Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
29 May 2025
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The Bo Nix clap back deserves a standing ovation.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
30 Jan. 2026
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Paulina Porizkova slammed body-shamers with a powerful clap back.
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Michelle Lee,
Peoplemag,
9 Mar. 2023
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In the teaser, Oakley is seen clapping back at Parks, who had thrown shade at her about her age.
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Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
27 June 2025
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Beckinsale has clapped back to people trolling her on Instagram in the past.
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Tommy McArdle,
Peoplemag,
25 Sep. 2023
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Teigen is no stranger to clapping back at online critics, and has fired back at hate comments as recently as last month.
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Bailey Richards,
People.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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Riley’s clap back wasn’t the only one to come from the Trojans’ football program.
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Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Nov. 2025
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Tammy Slaton is clapping back at those who have something to say about her appearance.
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Vanessa Etienne,
Peoplemag,
8 Jan. 2024
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Russell Wilson clapped back at Sean Payton.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
7 Mar. 2026
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Less than two weeks after this report was published, Better Cotton clapped back.
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Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
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Lebron has said that her videos are meant to be satirical and lighthearted, and has clapped back at users who have shared hateful comments on her posts.
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Rebecca Aizin,
Peoplemag,
13 Aug. 2024
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For context, this is far from the first time Kardashian has been forced to shut down pregnancy rumors or clap back against body shamers.
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Hanna Lustig,
Glamour,
3 Mar. 2023
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Kardashian claps back at a Twitter user who calls her a hypocrite and says Thompson is trash.
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Nicole Saunders,
Harper's BAZAAR,
21 Feb. 2019
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The Midsommar star then clapped back at haters of the nipple-baring gown in an Instagram post.
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Tracey Harrington McCoy,
Peoplemag,
13 July 2023
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Cavallari seemed to clap back at some of the online haters who have taken issue with their 13-year age difference.
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Kristina Behr,
Parents,
2 Apr. 2024
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The ultimate clapback to staying-in hair that's been chucked up in a bun?
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Elle Turner,
Glamour,
20 Jan. 2022
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Fans of the five-time Grammy award winner commented on her timely clapback.
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Elise Brisco,
USA TODAY,
8 May 2021
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But what happened next spoiled the Wild's initial clapback to its loss the previous night to the Blues.
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Sarah McLellan,
Star Tribune,
13 May 2021
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Sometimes, a good clapback isn’t aimed at any one particular person, but at an entire group of people.
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Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
11 Apr. 2022
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Carly Pearce is fast becoming country music’s queen of the clapback.
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Oct. 2024
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Kourtney Kardashian loves a good clapback at random trolls who question her life choices.
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Aimée Lutkin,
ELLE,
11 Mar. 2023
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Mia, usually quick with a clapback, finally reaches her breaking point.
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Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
21 Feb. 2025
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Kahmora is quick with a clapback, and served up some quite memorable confessional moments.
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Paul McCallion,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2021
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Many interpreted Biles' note to be a direct clapback at Skinner.
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Lindsay Kimble,
Peoplemag,
31 July 2024
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Kenya Moore follows in the footsteps of her co-star Whitfield by turning an iconic season-five clapback into a bop.
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Louis Staples,
Vulture,
23 June 2022
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Below, Billboard takes a look at 10 times when Lil Nas X showed us all the beauty of the clapback.
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Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
11 Apr. 2022
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Look no further than Trump’s own response to DeSantis’s gentle clapback.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
23 Mar. 2023
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Still, this clapback hasn’t stopped fans from making comments about Cardi B’s plastic surgery experiences.
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Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
5 Oct. 2024
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The clapback was swift, particularly from media outlets in Boston.
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Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2024
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The clapback from activist conservative judges and the financial service industry has been constant and severe.
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Pablo Manríquez,
The New Republic,
18 Sep. 2023
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That’s when the singer-songwriter logged back onto TikTok with a clapback that ignited the controversy even more.
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Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
27 May 2025
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In December, Pugh confirmed her relationship with Braff by way of a clapback directed at a hater.
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Alex Gurley,
Peoplemag,
16 Aug. 2022
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Emhoff’s clapback came during a visit to a reproductive health clinic in McLean, Virginia.
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Rebecca Picciotto,josephine Rozzelle,dan Mangan,ruxandra Iordache,christina Wilkie,
CNBC,
23 July 2024
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Making the team would have been the ultimate clapback, and Hernandez admits not getting that satisfaction made her knee injury that much more painful.
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USA Today,
12 June 2021
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In her most recent clapback at online body-shamers, Kate Beckinsale shed more light on the health issues that landed her in the hospital earlier this year.
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Tribune News Service,
The Mercury News,
11 July 2024
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The music video later concludes with Lamar staring at a caged owl, yet another clapback at Drake’s avian emblem and symbolic of where each of them now stand in the rap game.
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Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
9 July 2024
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Read the Danity Kane singer’s full clapback about her Instagram aesthetic below.
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Glenn Rowley,
Billboard,
22 Aug. 2022
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Girardi's clapback comes amid legal troubles with estranged husband Tom Girardi.
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Kaitlyn Frey,
PEOPLE.com,
22 June 2021
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Never one to shy away from a clapback, Madonna first posted a lengthy Instagram caption on February 7 that lambasted the ageism and sexism at the root of the comments.
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Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
21 Feb. 2023
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Afualo recalls a time when a thin white creator modelled her TikTok content off of Afualo’s, using the same mannerisms and verbiage as Afualo to post a clapback video.
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Lexy White,
refinery29.com,
12 May 2022
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The designation, created by trans advocate Rachel Crandall of Transgender Michigan in 2010, started as a clapback to the limited coverage of trans people in media, and stories that were wholly focused on the violence trans people faced.
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Allison Hope,
CNN,
31 Mar. 2023
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