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Example sentences for: tapped

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Worse, the bureau tapped King's phones and shadowed his every move, hunting for any damaging secrets.
Though the mines have mostly been tapped out, Taxco’s reputation as the Silver City of Mexico remains, due to the skilled workmanship and artistry of local silversmiths in creating silver jewelry and other artifacts.
Finally he walked up and almost half-heartedly tapped at the putt, which missed, and he lost, and when it was over he cried.
I think that's why recent giants like Watterson ( Calvin and Hobbes ) and Larson ( The Far Side ) quit after roughly a decade each--you get pretty tapped out at 3,000-plus ideas, and they had the class to recognize that.
I want to try a tentative technical definition: Records are correlated macroscopic states that identify sources of energy that can be tapped to extract work.