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• After the drilling and tapping operations, we come in with a mill and do some contouring.From the entry mill
• The tree was swaying in the breeze and tapping on the window pane.From the entry tap
• In earlier years, the intelligence services would often recruit agents by tapping them up.From the entry tap up
• You can pay by tapping your card.From the entry tap
• Hot tapping allows a pipe or tank to continue to be used while it is maintained or modified.From the entry hot tapping
• Anma is a traditional Japanese massage involving vigorous kneading, rubbing, tapping and shaking.2020, Parmod Kumar, Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, page 163. From the entry anma
• As I drift off to sleep there's a gentle tapping at my door.2019, Michael Mitchell, Final Fire: A Memoir. From the entry gotchies
• A settlement could impose new restrictions on wells tapping the bolson in both states.2015 November 2, David Crowder, “El Paso’s low water rates to rise”, in El Paso Inc., retrieved 21 Nov 2015. From the entry bolson
• "And what are you, if I may ask?" Sol said, tapping his partner's knee.2014, August Franza, AMERICA ARRIBA!: Don Quijote and Sancho Panza in the 21st Century, →ISBN. From the entry zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
• Do you find whispering, crinkling paper, tapping fingernails or scratching soothing?2014 October 15, “'Tingleheads' claim videos help ease stress”, in TODAY, NBC News. From the entry tinglehead
• Sometimes they test their victim by gently kicking or tapping them as they pass by.2013, DeVere D. Woods, O'Hara's Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation, →ISBN. From the entry lush worker
• There is no tapping into some stream of desire yet to be revealed.2012, Ms Patricia MacCormack, Cinesexuality. From the entry unthought
• The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping.2011, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning. From the entry juke
• Surface scans reveal several geothermal and solar power stations, tapping the planet's abundant energy.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Parnassus. From the entry tectonic
• Wilson began tapping his toms and cymbals in a halting pattern.2008 April 3, Nate Chinen, “Composing on the Spot, With Help From a Master”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov…. From the entry pendulumlike
• "He is tapping into universal aspects like noogies and floogies and Indian burns."2007, The Hollywood Reporter - Volume 399, page cxvi. From the entry floogy
• Nonalphabetized sounds include: sighing, laughing, weeping, foot tapping, drumming fingers, whistling, humming, booing, coughing.2006, Arthur O. Roberts, Messengers of God. From the entry nonalphabetized
• They make nuts, bolts, tapping screws, fasteners, anchors, togglers, drills, taps, rings, sockets and pop rivets.2002, Stephen Ausherman, Typical Pigs, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry toggler
• Tapping on the glabellum, just above the nose, which can elicit uninhibitable blinking in Parkinsonism.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry uninhibitable
• “It would be most irregular Grandpa!” says Miss Cecily frowning and tapping her foot.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry neither here nor there
• "And as we see here"—tapping the pad that he still held—"inability to write: agraphia."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London, page 159. From the entry agraphia
• “There now,” admonished Lane, “don't you begirt tapping your foot, Mrs.1923, Carolyn Wells, Wheels within Wheels. From the entry feeze
• Portia was still tapping at her arm concernedly.2022, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory, Tor, page 270. From the entry concernedly
• Now his fingertips were tapping in addition to his toe-bouncing, until soon his entire body was wibbling in jumping-bean fashion.2019 June, Suzanne Nelson, A Tale Magnolious, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry stock-still
• A five-piece band playing modern Top 40 danceables, Hot Pursuit is after Tucsonans not content with toe tapping.2015, Robert E. Zucker, Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades: Volume 2: 1986-1989. From the entry danceable
• To open an app, tap an item or toggle a switch by choosing the item and then double tapping the screen.2015 October 29, Stewart Melart, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus for Seniors: The Complete Guide (1), Conceptual Kings. From the entry double tap
• This granddaughter was clearly tapping into the energy and fun that many grandboomers bring to their new role.2005, Peggy Edwards, Mary Jane Sterne, Intentional Grandparenting: A Boomer's Guide, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., →ISBN, page 4. From the entry grandboomer
• Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping.2001, New York Times Staff, The New York Times Dance Reviews 2000, page 372. From the entry stepper
• Outside I could hear the bamboo chick tapping on the door like a blind man's stick on a kerbstone.1999, Kevin Rushby, chapter 10, in Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, New York: St.…. From the entry chick
• His foot was tapping on the concrete floor.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 6. From the entry joviality
• It leads me to the conclusion that he is randomly tapping the board and that his mother is extemporizing, whether consciously or not.2026 April 2, Jill Bearup, 9:54 from the start, in Is The New York Times Punking Us?, via YouTube. From the entry extemporize
• Salamander tapping is done at the salamander base, which is the bottom-most level of the liquid pool in a blast furnace hearth.2019, Ian Cameron, Mitren Sukhram, Kyle Lefebvre, Blast Furnace Ironmaking. From the entry salamander
• “Jean, it ain't right how you separated those two,” he said, and pianoed the little coffin with his fingers, tapping out his grievance.2017, Kim Michele Richardson, The Sisters of Glass Ferry. From the entry piano
• "Yup," he said, tapping the page.2016, Thom Carnell, Moonlight Serenades. From the entry yoink
• A two-dimensional system of photoelastic disks subject to vertical tapping against gravity was experimentally monitored from ordered to disordered configurations by varying bidispersity.2015, N. Iikawa, M. M. Bandi, H. Katsuragi, “Sensitivity of Granular Force Chain Orientation to Disorder-induced Metastable Relaxation”…. From the entry bidispersity
• Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out typewritten messages, which he scans and posts to his Web site, Adventures in Typewriterdom.2011 March 31, Jessica Bruder, “The Digital Generation Rediscovers the Magic of Manual Typewriters”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry typecasting
• After a period of oviposition, males will recopulate and perform a further series of tapping bouts, followed by another bout of oviposition.2001, Leigh W. Simmons, Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry recopulate
• How come those two got killed?" demanded the burlier of the pair, tapping a nightstick across his palm with loud swacking sounds.2001, Jake Logan, Railroad to Hell, page 4. From the entry swacking
• Foppl stood holding a sjambok or cattle whip of giraffe hide, tapping the handle against his leg in a steady, syncopated figure.1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.. From the entry sjambok

Meaning of tapping

1. noun An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
2. noun A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard.
3. noun The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.

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Questions about tapping in a sentence

How do you use tapping in a sentence?

Tapping is used as a noun. For example: “After the drilling and tapping operations, we come in with a mill and do some contouring.”

What is a short sentence with tapping?

“"Yup," he said, tapping the page.”

What does tapping mean?

Tapping means an act of making a light hit or strike against something.