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    Use "tap" in a sentence

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    tap


    tapped


    tapping


    taps


    1. Vinnie was sliding the glove around the door in small circular motions, every now and then he would tap one of the fingers of the glove against the door in alternating rhythms


    2. ‘Surely, they weren’t seriously seeing you as the perpetrator?’ he asked glancing round at me as his hands are busy washing the dishes under the hot tap


    3. doostEr had seen event messages on the vid screen at that tap


    4. He shovels some instant coffee and sugar into the cups, turns on the tap and lets the water run until it’s


    5. There’s a tap at the door and she hits the mute button


    6. "If the natives have figured it out they're going to print special editions and talk until late at many tap rails


    7. Actually Enrico was no more in the bot than anyone else in the crew, if anything, as a tech, Bahkmar was closer because he could tap into the raw I/O to the device that was the bot and encapsulate Enrico's controls


    8. Two taps, then one tap


    9. And then another single tap


    10. When you tap into it, you create more of it

    11. ” He pointed back, “Oh and there’s one in the tap for you


    12. Distance is measured with the tap of white wood,


    13. The businesses were a kedary, a briner, an inn and one other guy with a yaag still and tap


    14. Opposite the fireplace was a tap with a perky sweet little yellow that flowed cool from damp kegs


    15. As his wife surfaced from beneath the rolling waves of slumber she groaned and mumbled, feeling for a tumbler full of bathroom tap water that should have been on her bedside table


    16. I carry it back into the kitchen and rinse it under the tap, popping the Devil’s Ivy into it and taking it upstairs


    17. They were not the wooden barrels with bung taps that he knew from the parts of Alan's universe he had seen lately, they were plumbed fittings behind a polished bar with fine woodwork around it and glowing symbols on the tap handles, more like the place where he used to play the Herndon Cherub for her


    18. He could even understand Heymon and Glayet's cautions that the laws of physics allowed Brazilian Intelligence to tap into their system thru his instruments if he left it unsecured


    19. If this security breach was a Brazilian tap, he had to know about it


    20. "Those audio stream buffers have been re-used many times since then, unless Alfred has a security tap in Alan's home?"

    21. Once you have completed one round of tapping, you can keep going and tap through more


    22. As you tap on the negative statements while tuning into your feelings of fear, you will be


    23. Read more about the power of EFT here: Tap Yourself Into


    24. I can tap him any time I want, it’s in the Bishop’s sentence


    25. He kisses me very firmly before releasing me and, with a gentle tap on my rear, tells me to go home before he gets carried away


    26. tap water that should have been on her bedside table


    27. more ways to tap into the subconscious mind and get


    28. still tap into the subconscious of the subject to get the


    29. to tap into that knowledge


    30. you are trying to tap into

    31. Maggie hesitates, steels herself and then reaches up to tap the young man on the shoulder


    32. ’ Dave said, rinsing his hands under the tap


    33. Nervously, I run my hands under the tap and wipe them dry


    34. They refused the next round, saying they should get down to the tap house where the old timers were hanging out


    35. The place was a pretty lively public house inside with quite a crowd in the forty by sixty foot tap room on the first floor


    36. She helped herself to an empty glass and walked over to the sink, running the cold tap for a moment so that the water was really cold


    37. A tap on his shoulder


    38. There they found Himla and Elanda at the tap rail


    39. On the wall near at hand, on either side of the doorway were cabineted sink-basins, each with its own knobbed valve and tap, and again accessorized by the hand towels and dishes of hand-cut soap


    40. But culturally he goes no deeper than a tap and pickup room

    41. tap which was located just outside the door


    42. She smiled happily and turned the hot tap on to run a bowl full of washing up water, frothing the suds with one hand


    43. In Billy’s field of vision, in the image of the world that he carries with him as he sinks onto his knees by the mortuary door, Leona waves to him from the trolley and starts to tap her left foot in time to the beat of the music that is thumping through his throbbing temples


    44. At a tap on the glass Jock leaves off counting and lowers the passenger side window


    45. Billy is forced to smile and toothpaste sprays off the head of his battery powered toothbrush onto the cold tap


    46. He didn’t go right home but stopped at Taudly’s, a tiny tap that really catered to little more than the businesses and residents of his building


    47. There was Bethai, sitting in the end one of the five stools Taudly kept near his tap rail, her tall cup nearly done with a fill of his green


    48. The corners each had a tap of yellow, there was the same kegman there at the southwest corner that there had been twenty decades ago


    49. Maggie soaks a tea towel under the cold tap and starts to wipe away the congealing mess of mud and blood from his hands and face


    50. Jock does as he is told, pulling a wad of kitchen roll from the holder on the wall by the microwave, which he too wets under the tap so that he can clean himself up














































    1. He tapped away at the keyboard and waited


    2. He rushed over to his friend’s car and tapped on the smoked glass windows, gesticulating wildly at the vacant spot where his lovely sparkling convertible had been standing


    3. Bright and early the next morning the young man’s mother tapped on her son’s bedroom door and walked into the room carrying the usual tray of tea and biscuits


    4. Thom sensed the meeting was over, he tapped the signed req back into his phone and minimized it, then got up to go


    5. 'This is a good book,' I said as I tapped the cover and gave it to Vidya


    6. 'I am kidding,' she said and tapped my hand


    7. I tapped the cards


    8. hands to his forehead and heart and tapped it thrice


    9. He rushed over to his friend’s car and tapped on


    10. tapped the side of the flask with his finger, ‘This is

    11. He tapped a


    12. tapped Petr’s shoulder as the guard's changed, ‘Be


    13. ‘Now-now!’ Grinly tapped Kassim’s face with the


    14. Kaleb smiled and tapped the side of his large


    15. Kaleb grinned and tapped his nose again, ‘I’ll sniff


    16. He tapped a book which lay on the table beside him, next to his


    17. out of the car he tapped me on the shoulder and pointed at the parking lot


    18. this,' he tapped the fiddle by his side, 'we will always have


    19. His long, thin fingers tapped his upper lip


    20. tapped his fingers together, avoiding the Cardinal’s gaze by

    21. Brunno’s feet tapped faster and his head went back and forth


    22. Since the lad who usually tapped out the telegraphs was away to lunch, he sidled around the counter and deftly tapped out his message himself


    23. One of his men tapped him on the shoulder and placed a microphone in his


    24. The magician tapped his wand twice and the


    25. When Todd tapped at the door, she was happier then he could’ve realized to see him


    26. What power he had tapped into—the ability to end life or free it


    27. Henri tapped the side of his nose and smiled broadly


    28. " he tapped her on the hand


    29. Otto tapped Bruce’s shoulder


    30. coming until his friend tapped him on the shoulder and

    31. Nathan spent the next two hours classifying the diamonds into groups of similar color and clarity and then weighed each pile then tapped the results into his calculator


    32. I tapped on Sally’s window for what seemed like hours


    33. Otto tapped Bruce with his stick


    34. I tapped Lindy on


    35. Sky lightly tapped the speaker with his finger


    36. God could be tapped into your brain right now knowing all your innermost thoughts and you can't know


    37. ’ He tapped Jean on the arm and added


    38. I crossed my arms, waiting to hear how she had suddenly tapped into the psychic network


    39. He tapped on the table with increasing agitation


    40. To dream that your telephone has been tapped indicates that aspects of your subconscious must be confronted

    41. “More to the point,” the Elf insisted as she brought the Lúthien within a hundred meters of the vessel, “what's an obsolete Lascorii E-Class starship doing here?!” She tapped the com; “Senta? Lock on our position and tell me what you see on the scanners


    42. He tapped her cheek


    43. When it became evident that everyone had had his fill of drink and food, Zarko stood up and lightly tapped on his goblet with his knife to get their attention


    44. The CEO tapped a few keys - and up on the


    45. someone either tapped out, got knocked out, or the ref through in the towel


    46. Bush’s house, tapped on her side door and stepped quickly inside when she opened it


    47. Victor spent time alone and tapped into the


    48. " He tapped his forehead with a thick finger


    49. " He tapped his temple with his middle finger


    50. He tapped into the data again














































    1. The Kassikan's data sphere is secure from tapping at this range


    2. By the letter of Holy Law they weren't supposed to be sharing this information but the only person that could know would be another tech tapping into their duty environment


    3. Around the third night of my captivity in the apartment, late into the small hours, I heard a faint tapping coming from the pipe that connected the radiator in my room to the circuit of pipes that ran through the apartment


    4. Wrapped as I was in the cotton wool of solitary confinement, unable as I was to express any of my thoughts in concrete form or to engage in conjecture with another rational human being, nonetheless I spent hours imagining faces and clothes and names to accompany the hollow tapping sounds in the night


    5. I must have missed the tapping


    6. the echo of concrete tapping shoes


    7. I slowly crawled up to it, tapping it like a caveman


    8. But someone was tapping my leg with a stick and it wasn't Alessandra


    9. At one point, after pocketing their money and their komboloi beads, they performed a remarkable piece of coordinated percussion by tapping their feet and fingertips on the table tops in time to a tune hummed by Zacharias, their Sophian eyes a-shining


    10. Once you have completed one round of tapping, you can keep going and tap through more

    11. Some people start with a half-hearted round or two of tapping and conclude that it doesn‘t work, but some issues can be


    12. Reminder: Be as specific as possible about the issues you are tapping on


    13. Rather than tapping for ―I‘m afraid,‖ try including the reasons you are afraid, what you most fear happening, and why


    14. A light tapping on his door interrupted his thoughts and he turned towards the sound


    15. There was a light tapping on the door, it opened and Rayne stepped in


    16. Ava wasn’t about to let this come to fruition, so she stopped the captain’s grant line and then popped into the office tapping Yellelle on the shoulder


    17. “I picture him in the downstairs office tapping his foot


    18. Before any time at all they were coaxing the bands up the outside of the tub, tapping them higher until seated at their proper latitudes round the container


    19. began tapping his lips as if considering a complicated


    20. ' Corrente went back to tapping

    21. tapping, it was strongly battering against the


    22. sat in the driveway and I could see her fingers tapping the steering wheel


    23. Another favorite game was Chytrinda, in which the “pot” sat in the middle, while the other players ran around tapping at him until he caught one to replace him


    24. The franticness and speed of the tapping parallels how chaotic or calm your life is


    25. A few seconds into her ascent to the apartment, she heard the tapping footsteps of the man climbing after her "Stop, I said!" he yelled


    26. Their eyes glittered in the darkness and the rhythmic tapping of their feet upon the stone was enough to drive chills up and down both Bretons’ backs


    27. something else aloud when she heard a tapping sound at the rear of the house


    28. She returned to the living room just in time to hear the faint tapping sound on the door


    29. Glen sat by the bed again, the soda can tapping against his knee


    30. “Not yet, sir, but it will by the time I’ve finished with it” chuckled Fletcher, tapping it with the wrench, “The main piston has been knocked out of place and now it catches on the casing

    31. ” He started tapping his boot with his swagger stick a little habit he had when speaking he told us


    32. “Now what seems to be the problem with you?” he asked, tapping on his computer keyboard for a moment before looking at Chris


    33. “Do you get any pain from these wounds?” He checked my chest tapping it with his fingers and the listening with his stethoscope


    34. ” We would have liked to have heard more about the place but he went on his way tapping the wheels on every wagon and carriage


    35. “Come here,” she said, tapping her lap


    36. Hill lays out a program for tapping into the powerful forces of suggestion, psychic affinity, imagination and visualization to make money in


    37. He began to kick the leg of the coffee table before him, gently tapping at first, before his frustration became greater and the kicks began to shake the table


    38. the case said, “We were in the middle of a corruption crime spree, and we wanted to stop it,” as justification for tapping his phone and finally pulling the plug on Blagojevich by arresting him


    39. Roger was tapping away on the computer


    40. Alex had been showing the underwater crew the stunning hundred metre vertical coral wall when another diver appeared at his side with a small board, tapping him on the shoulder

    41. Rounding the corner of the house, she quickened her pace, high heels tapping on the paving stones


    42. Those two hours flew by like two minutes and before she knew it Terry was tapping her on the shoulder, shouting, “Last one Dawn


    43. tapping on the door," replied the mother


    44. The X-ray images appeared on the big computer screen and she lent forward excitedly, tapping on the keyboard to print out a hard copy of the image


    45. Picking up the phone he dialled her mobile, tapping his finger on the handset as he waited for a connection


    46. Sitting at the desk, he opened the lid and pressed the on-off button, tapping his fingers as he waited for it to boot up


    47. The surprise quickly turned to pain and he dropped to the floor, revealing Harry standing behind him, tapping a crowbar in the palm of his hand


    48. Dip cookies in chocolate one at a time, tapping against the side of the bowl to remove excess


    49. and keep tapping F8 until the option to boot in Safe Mode appears


    50. When the compression is finished, reboot your computer once again, keep tapping F8 and enter Normal Mode














































    1. Rain water harvesting, cleaning of small tanks before rainy season, closing of running taps, not allowing drawing of water directly from mains through electric motor, recycling water for WCs etc are some of the areas where we can generate awareness and guide others to act


    2. Russ taps him on the knee


    3. John taps out something on his laptop


    4. Desperate not to miss those faint taps, but my mind drifted off again, rampaging through fantasies and memories


    5. Two taps, then one tap


    6. He started using diagnostic taps to see where those responses were coming from


    7. He took Yarin's cup and measured that, then went to his taps and began filling it with a thick, opaque, seed-leaf-green liquid


    8. He could have been at the taps all evening and neither of them would have noticed because Ava’s magic could take them years of travel away in his three-d reality box


    9. Next he removed the diagnostics and logging taps from his own terminal so that his activity would not be logged


    10. "As long as the taps are still pouring?" Ava asked

    11. "You've been here before," Thom said as soon as the girl was on her way to the taps


    12. They were not the wooden barrels with bung taps that he knew from the parts of Alan's universe he had seen lately, they were plumbed fittings behind a polished bar with fine woodwork around it and glowing symbols on the tap handles, more like the place where he used to play the Herndon Cherub for her


    13. He had some taps into Alan's universe that Ava had given him because he needed a way to spot check that Alan’s sentence was being carried out


    14. “Yes, but that’s your taps into us, they must have found our taps into you today, or late yesterday I guess, and shut them down


    15. Dave taps on the back door before opening the door and going in, calling ‘Chris! We’re here


    16. “I think watching from the deck and listening to conversations around the taps are as good


    17. The taps are on


    18. ” That was amidship where there was a hearth and taps


    19. The rail here inside overlooked the galley and taps


    20. Ted sighs, reaches for his cigarettes, flips the top of the box, takes one out and taps it on the bar so that it slides vertically through his nicotine-yellow fingers

    21. He can always find work there if things are a little slow behind the taps


    22. “It depends on when that occurs and the strength of their taps


    23. He taps his brother on his chest and Darren pulls a tenner out of his back pocket


    24. He taps the side of his nose


    25. “Then I’ll be comfortable at that table, what about at the taps?”


    26. Instead he walked nonchalantly along this commercial street for a ways, looking like he was checking out the action at a few taps on his way by


    27. He could see that his cup was empty, so he picked up two more on his way past the taps


    28. They went by the taps again and found that Knume’s keg was empty and Nobron’s was now open along with Larneh’s, which was already getting a little low


    29. “I've found the pool drain unlocked that's obviously where the water went, did you try your taps in your basins?” He looked at us all and I shook my head


    30. She taps a story

    31. DeeDee quickly taps out a search, turns her computer monitor to Nikki as Patrice walks in


    32. As a side effect all taps, and drink machines had to have an attachment to fit that universal standard valve


    33. Three more Torvellen barmaids stood at the bar, pumping the taps for their pints


    34. A youth in a luminescent green shirt with trim of black fringe and patent leather shoes with taps grabbed her hand and gave her lessons in the middle of San José's busiest street


    35. The heels of his boots had taps so every click of his approach could be heard


    36. Then a succession of taps and they slid down a screen at a time


    37. Turning on the taps, she enjoyed the fresh sound of thundering water filling the tub, seeing the steam begin to rise


    38. Four soft, quick taps of the keys later, and he had completed the alteration


    39. Charles taps Barbara on the shoulder


    40. " The hawk continued with four pad taps

    41. He taps his fingers against the table


    42. Next to him is Eric, who taps his foot faster than my heartbeat


    43. He taps something, and I tilt my head back to see what it is


    44. She taps her fingers against her leg for a few seconds and then says, “I don’t think of it as stopping


    45. He takes the needle from me and taps the metal disc at the end of it


    46. Tobias follows me immediately, and Shauna taps Lynn on the shoulder


    47. One of the Erudite scientists taps his own computer screen, and an image appears on the left wall


    48. ” He taps the arm I shot


    49. temperature record, and deeper taps had led to projections of the so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger fifteen hundred–year cycle (named after the Greenland tappers) going back a million years


    50. ” He taps his chin














































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    Synonyms for "tap"

    dab pat tap wiretap spigot hydrant water faucet water tap rap strike beg solicit exploit tip tapdance knock pink bug intercept pierce bore drill spear spike lance stab perforate hit touch bob drain draw empty pour out

    "tap" definitions

    the sound made by a gentle blow


    a gentle blow


    a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask


    a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)


    a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads


    a plug for a bunghole in a cask


    the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information


    a light touch or stroke


    cut a female screw thread with a tap


    draw from or dip into to get something


    strike lightly


    draw from; make good use of


    tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information


    furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it


    make light, repeated taps on a surface


    walk with a tapping sound


    dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes


    draw (liquor) from a tap


    pierce in order to draw a liquid from


    make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently