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• The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.From the entry tap
• Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer.From the entry between
• Mushroomcore taps into our collective craving for nature, nostalgia and a bit of eccentric charm.2025 July 14, Unattributed, “Fashionable fungi: How to get the mushroomcore look in your home”, in Good Homes Magazine, archived from the…. From the entry mushroomcore
• Similarly, the swipes and taps on your touch­screen form a living signature of your movement.2019 July 10, Vanessa Chang, “How Phone Taps and Swipes Train Us to Be Better Consumers”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast…. From the entry tap
• 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
• Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes.1993, Iain Banks, Complicity, published 2008, unnumbered page. From the entry biro
• There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps.1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition). From the entry jawbox
• One taps any source of comfort — Leigh Ashton at Charleston yesterday for instance.1940, Virginia Woolf, edited by Leonard Woolf, A Writer's Diary, published 1953, page 323. From the entry for instance
• This taps into issues such as driver-only operation, on which Labour has been outspoken in supporting striking union members.2019 October 23, Rail, page 44. From the entry driver-only operation
• The modern NTD effort includes tangible solutions—pills, surgeries, tippy taps, bed nets—as well as questions without simple answers.2019, Ellen Agler, Mojie Crigler, Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases…. From the entry tippy tap
• Craft beer and cucumber water poured from kitchen taps.2018 March, Laura Bliss, “How WeWork Has Perfectly Captured the Millennial Id”, in The Atlantic. From the entry toque
• These include handwashing bags, tippy taps, and buckets with lids and taps (e.g., the Oxfam bucket and Handy Wash).2018, Nicole Weber, Anu Rajasingham, Molly Patrick, Andrea Martinsen, Thomas Handzel, “Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)”, in David…. From the entry tippy tap
• Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.2017, Charles King, Cadet Days. From the entry tattoo
• Several gingerly taps on her console fired clusters of modified probes into the maelstrom of the gas giant’s atmosphere.2012, David [Alan] Mack, chapter 28, in Persistence of Memory (Star Trek: The Next Generation; Cold Equations; book 1), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry gingerly
• The breeze taps my face with a robe-corner.2004, Margo Lanagan, “Rite of Spring”, in Black Juice, London: Gollancz, published 2007, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry a whole nother
• Rhotics can be realized as flaps, taps, trills (uvular, coronal or bilabial), or as assibilated or fricative variants.1997, Eulàlia Bonet, Joan Mascarò, “On the representation of contrasting rhotics”, in Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front…. From the entry rhotic
• At one point in this sequence it seems that the taps have been slightly misdubbed — very rare in Astaire's work.1986, John E. Mueller, Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films, page 193. From the entry misdub
• The gal's backbends, the father's hoofology, the boy's fast steps and the mother's taps all won solid mitting.1951 June 30, Billboard, page 40. From the entry backbend
• Perhaps it is you whose machine-gun taps every night like a devil-ridden typewriter against this particular area of our parapet?1917, Tom Kettle, “‘Zur Erinnerung’: A Letter to an Austrian Fellow-Student”, in The Ways of War, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page…. From the entry devil-ridden
• Carbolic acid, save for keeping silk, drainage tubes, taps, douche pipes, and other appliances in, I never employ.1900, Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 49, page 424. From the entry douching
• Meanwhile, BarbieCore taps into a playful, nostalgic love for all things pink and plastic, blending fashion with a sense of empowerment and self-expression.2024 September 27, Nicole Chan, “Digital subcultures: Why Gen Z finds meaning in the margins”, in The Straits Times, Singapore. From the entry Barbiecore
• Glasgow Central also has other facilities that are rarely found elsewhere, including a multi-faith prayer room and taps for topping up drinking water bottles.2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 35. From the entry multi-faith
• I do think that with regard to the spending taps being loosened by the DfT, it would be good to convert projects like this.2020 April 22, Richard Clinnick, “"We are feeling positive"”, in Rail, page 62. From the entry screamingly
• But the Union Bears decided it was a “taps aff” kind of day and celebrated Hemmings' goal by displaying their bare chests.2013, Lisa Gray, Rangers FC We Don't Do Walking Away: The Incredible Inside Story of a Season in the Third Division, Black & White…. From the entry taps aff
• The ways in which advertising taps into, and draws upon, what people do anyway is exemplified in the case of boyfriend jeans.2012, Daniel Miller, Sophie Woodward, Blue Jeans: The Art of the Ordinary, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry boyfriend jeans
• The main ingredient is usually an abandoned building, preferably with a vacant lot nearby to hold picnic tables and a few beer taps.2011 August 15, Mark Baker, “The 'ruin pubs' of Budapest's seventh district”, in BBC. From the entry ruin pub
• To taps of the operators’ fingers on their key pads the screen images faded to darkness, which were then stopped up to grey.2008, Stephen Baxter, chapter 85, in Flood, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 417. From the entry key pad
• This is a rapid, clipped, chattering, birdlike recitation of synonyms with approvals, reaction after each addition, e.g. taps, sighs, claps, nod, facial expressions, exclamations.[1992, Kenneth Bernard, “One Thing is not Another (A Vaudeville)”, in Curse of Fool: Three Plays, Santa Maria, Calif.: Asylum Arts, →ISBN…. From the entry unamicability
• Epaulets of shimmery brass cover it and pipings of gold; and its chrome bell bings if the ancient motorman taps it with a wrinkled shoe.1966, Ray Bradbury, “The Trolley”, in S Is for Space, London: Granada Publishing, published 1983, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry shimmery
• Residents of Hitac̓u, the heart of the Ucluelet First Nation, have been told not to drink, bathe in, or even clean with the water coming out of their taps.2025 March 9, “Indigenous language now included on Ucluelet bus stop signs — a first for B.C. Transit”, in CBC News. From the entry Ucluelet
• Largely grounded in European classics, the ever-changing roster of taps cycles through grisettes, altbiers, kölsches, and saisons, but also trots out “beastly” concoctions like Imperial IPAs as well.2019, Douglas Trattner, Moon Cleveland, Avalon Travel, →ISBN. From the entry grisette
• For a street view search of Partick's Merkland Street has unveiled a man who appears to be dancing in the middle of the street with his "taps aff".2015 February 12, “Only in Glasgow: 'taps aff' man features in Partick Google Maps”, in Glasgow Evening Times. From the entry taps aff
• Through the open door Clement sees the girls in the shady shelter shed drinking daintily from the bubble taps and dabbing at their mouths with their crumpled white hankies.2008, Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row. From the entry bubble tap
• Drills connecting tube holes in valve, taps internal and external threads in valve and ballisters, and cuts recess in top of valve or ballisters, using drill press.1991, Dictionary of Occupational Titles - Volume 2, page 747. From the entry ballister
• Stepping to the helicline of the flood-lighted Perisphere at the New York World's Fair at midnight Sunday, an Army bugler sounded taps, signalizing the beginning of an epic grand finale.1940 November 4, “Taps for the Fair”, in Newsweek, page 19. From the entry helicline

Meaning of taps

1. noun A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier.

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How do you use taps in a sentence?

Taps is used as a noun. For example: “The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.”

What is a short sentence with taps?

“The breeze taps my face with a robe-corner.”

What does taps mean?

Taps means a signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier.