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Example sentences for: tapping

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House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been gently tapping the "third rail" of American politics--Social Security reform--to see if the electricity it generates is truly lethal.
We heard a distant tapping on the road, A deepening drumming; it stopped, went on again And at the corner changed to hollow thunder.
But Richard Morrison, writing in The Times in 1995, says he knows a journalist who has taken to writing his stories in longhand, revising them laboriously in ink, and only then tapping them into the computer.
One reporter tried to get into the club by tapping a connection with a friend who is a member, but he was refused admission on the reasonable grounds that he wasn't wearing a necktie.
Clearly the individual-level measure is tapping into different concepts as the two pairs are not even positively correlated.