She turns around and sees the crowd cheering and applauding to her. The cheering sections showed great sportsmanship, applauding all good plays impartially. While applauding Nixon's progressive policy agenda, environmentalists found much to criticize in his record. In his progress towards the capital he was accompanied by applauding crowds. He often shocked people by applauding Shelley's atheism and disparaging Browning and Tennyson. A full hour after the curtain fell, the audience was still applauding. "All you people sitting, applauding over a child killer," Harlins yelled. After this game, Spassky joined the audience in applauding Fischer's win. But in the end, we're all envious and thankful, jealous and applauding. A year later, a large audience is applauding the premiere of Fallow's book. He got his fans applauding his debut single. As the number of dead kept increasing, the passengers were applauding. At the same time I'll be applauding the boys continued success. But they were applauding because they thought I was boring. Plus, Steve was getting tired of applauding every time I gave my opinion.