Claque used in a sentence

Claque in a sentence as a noun

Rumsfeld and the neocon claque certainly ginned it up.

Rent control is a shocking idea that makes a small claque of renters rich at the expense of everyone else.

"Did these obedient claques care nothing for the lives of American boys?

But it does illustrate how certain stars of the tech world, some of whom have their claques on HN, can get pretty far disconnected from the real world.

Not all that different from the 18th century "claque," when theater owners or playwrights would pay groups to attend their performances and applaud loudly.

Without further data, it might be entirely possible that Backpfeifengesicht was composed by a single translator trying to transfer the well-known-expression nature of "tête à claques" into german.