Example sentences for: tapping

How can you use “tapping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We tell you, tapping on our brows, The story as it should be,As if the story of a house Were told, or ever could be;We'll have no kindly veil betweenHer visions and those we have seen,As if we guessed what hers have been, Or what they are or would be.

  • Tapping the $500 I started with, I set up a $150 account with my credit card.

  • Just recently, the International Herald Tribune carried an alarming piece in which Henry Tang, a prominent local industrialist and member of Tung's Cabinet, suggested tapping Hong Kong's considerable foreign exchange (some $69 billion in reserves, plus another $22 billion in a special fund from land sales) to develop southern China.

  • In the east, some scraped out a living by tapping the sap of the zapote or chicle tree and selling it to American manufacturers of chewing gum.

  • If Kennedy was so quickly bored by others--his anonymous lover in Dark Side is not the first to recall his relentless tapping of feet, of fingers, of teeth--how did he endure interminable briefings on border disputes in North Africa?


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