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Example sentences for "tap"

Lexicographically close words:
tantus; tanyard; tanzen; taobh; taown; tapa; tape; taped; taper; tapered
  1. But suddenly there came a whisper of soft feet on the landing, and a secret tap at the door.

  2. Your ordinary music-hall conductor ducks from below, slips into his chair, and his tap has turned on the flow of his twenty instruments before you realize that he is up.

  3. A tap at the door roused her in the midst of this attempt to find her way to her duty, and her gentle "Come in" was answered by the appearance of one, before whom all her doubts were wont to be laid.

  4. Perhaps it has been there a long while, and only required some one to tap it out.

  5. If you don't go away, I will tap you with my stick.

  6. A tap at the door, and the maid's mild voice announced the carriage; and a few minutes later Mrs. Wentworth descended the stairs.

  7. Then I must have confounded her with you," sighed Mr. Rimmon, with such a look at Mrs. Lancaster out of his languishing eyes that she gave him a laughing tap with her fan.

  8. A tap at the door announced an answer to the bell, and the next moment a clerk came in.

  9. Norman, with his books before him, was sitting back in his chair, his head leaning back and resting in his clasped hands, deep in thought upon the gloom of the present and the perplexities of the future, when there was a tap at the door.

  10. At that moment there came a tap at the door leading into the living part of the house, and the butler entered.

  11. At last there came a tap at the door, and the butler appeared.

  12. In the first place, I never tap for secrets.

  13. She answered a tap at the door, and raised her eyes on Clara.

  14. In den handel, de industrie, de vrije beroepen en in het onderwijs neemt hij een zeer belangrijke plaats in.

  15. It was just at that moment that there came a light tap at the girls' door.

  16. She was in the midst of it when there came a tap at her room-door.

  17. She opened the door of the sitting-room, after a light tap of the tiny brass knocker, to find Patricia rising from the piano-stool with pleased expectation in her face, an expression which rapidly became one of joyful surprise.

  18. Serve them up with Sippets, and no more Liquor, then will serve them up; you must put Salt in all the Puddings.

  19. Then put to it the yolks of eight new laid Eggs, and two whites, and a pound of butter.

  20. Then put it into bottles (having first let it run through a strainer) and set them in a Cellar or other cool place.

  21. Then take it from the fire, and have ready some very thin Brown-paper, and clap a single sheet close upon it, and if any scum remain, it will stick to the Paper.

  22. The query naturally arises whether the corrections indicate that Rashi worked the entire commentary over and over again.

  23. Nor need we think of him as the unwilling prisoner of rules and a victim of their tyranny.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abridge; apply; attend; auger; avenue; bang; bar; beat; bereave; bite; bleed; bore; breath; broach; brush; buffer; bug; bulb; bump; bunt; burst; bust; caress; catheter; channel; chink; chuck; chute; clap; clash; cleave; click; clink; clop; clump; cock; contact; cork; count; crack; crash; cringle; curtail; cut; decant; deprive; designate; device; disburden; divest; divide; door; draft; drain; draw; drill; drum; eavesdrop; egress; empty; escape; estuary; exhaust; exit; eye; eyelet; faucet; feel; feeling; fillip; finger; fissure; fix; flap; flick; flip; flirt; floodgate; flop; flume; funnel; gasket; gate; generator; glance; gore; gouge; graze; grommet; guide; handle; hark; hear; hearken; heed; hole; honeycomb; hose; hydrant; impale; incise; intercept; keyhole; kiss; knock; knothole; lance; lap; lathe; let; lick; lid; listen; loop; loophole; lounge; manhole; manipulate; milk; mine; name; needle; nipple; nominate; open; opening; out; outcome; outlet; pad; palm; part; parts; patter; paw; peck; peephole; peg; penetrate; perforate; pick; pierce; pigeonhole; pin; pinhole; pink; pipe; pipeline; pipette; piping; placket; plug; plump; plunk; ply; poke; pop; pore; port; porthole; pound; prick; prod; pump; punch; puncture; radix; rap; ream; reed; relay; relieve; rent; riddle; rift; rive; root; rub; ruffle; screw; separate; siphon; skewer; slam; slap; slat; slit; sluice; smack; snap; spear; spigot; spike; spile; spill; spiracle; spit; splat; split; spout; spread; spring; stab; standpipe; stem; stick; stop; stopper; stopple; straw; stroke; suck; swap; tap; taproom; taproot; tear; thrum; thud; thumb; thump; thwack; tick; tickle; tinkle; tip; tool; touch; transfix; tube; tubercle; tubing; twiddle; value; valve; vent; whack; wham; whisk; whisper; whop; wield