tapping
Example Sentences
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I tap at his door, and keep tapping, louder and louder, until he turns.
From Literature
At nearly any moment of a day—at your coffee maker, on your computer or television, in your car, on your iPhone—you are tapping in to the legacy of Bell Labs’ work.
Instead of tapping naturally with your fingertips, you often have to angle your fingers awkwardly just to make contact with the screen.
From Science Daily
If we’re gonna go really deep, I didn’t even invent the music that I wrote — maybe it was written millions of years ago, and I’m just tapping into something.
From Los Angeles Times
Suriname didn’t allow dual nationality, which prevented the national team from tapping into the significant pool of Dutch-born players who might otherwise qualify through their Surinamese parents or grandparents.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
