Tapping Sentence Examples

Iliana asked, tapping a hot pink fingernail.

Their conversation was interrupted by a tapping at the back door.

Fred reached for the newspaper, tapping a small article with his fingers as he handed it to Dean.

Most screens are activated by tapping them with your finger.

We may easily realise its transmission through a solid by putting the ear against a table and scratching the wood at some distance, and through a liquid by keeping both ears under water in a bath and tapping the side of the bath.

I know for a fact they've talked to the tip line people and didn't get very far but who knows if they're tapping the line.

The state owes to this ruler the opening up of new railways across the great desert, which was formerly passable only by camels, and the tapping of the valuable coal deposits that occur in the territory.

Tapping of the model causes minor rearrangements of the balls, especially at the top of the " solid " region.

At the receiving station he connected, as stated, one end of the sensitive tube to earth and the other to the antenna, and improved and applied a device of Popoff for automatically tapping the tube after each electric impact had rendered it conductive.

The numerous adjustments required by the tapper and the inertia of the apparatus prompted inventors to seek for a self-restoring coherer which should not need tapping.

Again, the magician conscious of his limitations will seek to supplement his influence - his mana, as it is termed in the Pacific - by tapping, so to speak, whatever sources of similar power lie round about him; and these the "magomorphism" of primitive society perceives on every hand.

Trans., 1876, 166 [ii.], P. 489, where it is shown that tapping the glass of a Leyden jar permits the reappearance of the residual charge; " On the Residual Charge of 2 See Faraday, Experimental Researches, vol.

Some of the slag fragments have multiple layers that may result from continuous or serial tapping.

An example is the ' knee-jerk ' reflex, which involves a sudden twitch of a limb muscle caused by tapping the tendon.

Do not arouse the animals in zoo exhibits by tapping on the glass.

Is there any reason why the vet would delay tapping so long?

I'm not a vet, but it does raise questions that the tapping was suggested by the vet, consented to by you and never carried out over two and a half hours on a desperately ill patient.

Simply use your PayPass, which you can attach to your keychain, by tapping it on a designated reader.

This can be a faster way to pay for medical costs than tapping into health savings accounts.

To combat this reduced availability, some regions are tapping into deep underground reservoirs that are non-renewable to erase the difference between the amount available and the current demand.

A new technique called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) involves tapping at various acupuncture meridians with the fingertips.

It is not unusual to hear a soft tapping noise as the procedure takes place.

Do this by tapping the brush head lightly on its side against the lid, or simply blow on it gently.

For added drama, bring a little of the dark shadow color under the eye by tapping the area with the tip of your brush.

By tapping in to the energies of the cosmos, you can also revitalize your mind, body, spirit, and psyche to better deal with the individual stress triggers in your life.

Heal the Planet Meditation helps you decrease stress by tapping into your spirit.

Do you find yourself tapping your pencil, twirling your hair, biting your nails or doing some other anxious habit when you are thinking?

For example, tapping your pencil could irritate the people around you and biting your nails could become painful after awhile.

Celebrities are alphabetized by first name, so if you're looking for Amanda Tapping for example, you'd search under "A" rather than "T."

A good indication that it is time to trim your dog's nails is when you hear them tapping on uncarpeted areas, such as wood floors or concrete.

Eddie's playing is the complete package of tasteful phrasing, an innovative two-handed tapping technique, swinging rhythm playing and an unmistakable sound, all delivered with a passion and joy that only the true greats possess.

Just under two minutes long, Eruption climaxes with a tapping solo at the end that introduced the world to this incredible new technique.

Played on a nylon string guitar, this solo also highlights Van Halen's signature tapping technique.

As a guitarist, Eddie Van Halen is known for two-handed tapping, vibrato and a large use of tremolo picking.

Urban sites may necessitate the demolition of a previous structure or could require tapping into the city sewer and water systems.

Tapping into this huge market of women who ran errands, took care of kids and worked hard at their careers was genius for Blass and it worked well.

If you keep tapping in either of those directions your character will keep doing handsprings.

Many special moves could be executed with only the D-pad and required no thumb-rolling, only tapping single directions in succession.

The spin attack makes its more than welcome debut as well, this involves crouching and tapping the A button to charge Sonic up, when released he would shoot off at great speeds.

While not in weapon mode, you find yourself tapping the Circle button to constantly center the camera behind you.

They may not seem like much, but tapping a few buttons over moving the mouse can give you that extra second that puts you ahead.

Swinging the sword and using items is done by moving the Wii Remote, so instead of tapping a button to attack an enemy you can literally just move your hand.

Lessons include scales, picking, tapping and exercises to improve manual dexterity.

Touch2O technology allows you to turn the water on and off just by tapping the faucet anywhere on the handle or spout.

Instead of simply tapping a button to throw the football to a particular receiver in Madden 07, you make a throwing motion with the Wiimote to toss the ol' pigskin.

For some smartphone platforms, this is as simple as either tapping on the link or holding your finger over the link to the desired file.

It's as easy as tapping a button on the screen; your mail will open right up.

You can also use your music or the tapping of your fingers to generate specific visualizations.

After that, you go through the same process of tapping and holding on the app icon to enter "wiggle" mode, clicking on the "X" button, and tapping on the "delete" button to confirm.

Coordination can also be assessed by asking the patient to alternate tapping the palm then the back of one hand on the thigh.

For example, tapping over the sinuses may cause pain in patients with sinusitis, but it may not.

Intractive metronome training uses a similar instrument as the metronome used by musicians to keep time in order to train individuals to develop their motor and timing skills through repetitively tapping the beat.

His rhythm style of tapping uses the entire foot to produce sounds.

Of course, for those who reach the elite level, there are always opportunities to audition for the "big time" tapping opportunities of Broadway, London and beyond.

Audiences leave the show singing the title song and swinging their umbrellas, tapping their toes and in love with the world, largely because of the happy dancing and singing in this scene.

Tapping into research that someone has already done is one of the greatest (and easiest) ways to get a free family tree trace.

Many employers are tapping into senior resources and some are willing to allow workers to telecommute on a part time basis.

Essentially, you are tapping into your equity to receive money that you can use any way you want.

Whether you are buying a home for the first time using an 80-20 mortgage, or tapping into the equity on a home you already own, the house must be worth enough after the first mortgage is paid to guarantee the debt.

Players take turns tapping out individual blocks of ice while the polar bear continues to skate.

By tapping into this inner voice, we can hear the message of other's body language loud and clear.

Finding MySpace friends can be as easy as tapping into the alumni networks of schools you've attended in the past.

Tapping into trends that spread like wildfire, Girbaud uses these influences to stay one step ahead of the game.

Intensely creative, Imix natives have a way of tapping into the collective consciousness, but unfortunately, follow through on those projects is not strong point.

One late night, he heard a tapping at the bedroom window where he looked and saw his hand.

Finally the tapping occurred again, so the artist sat up and screamed at the hand to leave him alone!

The tapping stopped, and the artist slept peacefully the rest of the night.

As children get older, they learn to "self-talk" in order to comfort themselves when there's a shadow moving in the corner of the room or a tapping on the ceiling.

Older children tell themselves that there's a perfectly reasonable explanation - the shadow is just the cat, and the tapping is just the wind.

Many people forget this aspect in the thrill of tapping into the well of knowledge that comes with psychic abilities.

Bloch is a well-known name in the world of fancy footwork and the company outfits some of the busiest feet on the planet with a full line of quality shoes that keeps wearers leaping high and tapping in rhythm.

Roses are also symbolic in Greek history of the muse Erato, and the wearing of the rose tattoo could be seen as a means of tapping into inner muses.

It is simply a case of tapping a start key and the watch will start measuring time in milliseconds, seconds and minutes.

Texas' history is like a game of two halves, where the first half was experimental tapping of the musical football, and the second half consisted more of targeted punts straight to the back of the music chart net.

Captain Samantha "Sam" Carter (Amanda Tapping), a brilliant tactician and astrophysicist, and the Jaffa warrior Teal'c (Christopher Judge) completed the original team.

She reprised the role in season 9 during Tapping's maternity leave and later returned as a series regular during the tenth season.

After season three, Elizabeth Weir was written out to make room for Amanda Tapping's Colonel Samantha Carter.

Power flows along ley lines and pools into nodes; tapping into this power makes these Heralds very powerful magicians.

It’s not as bad as on SG 1 – Amanda Tapping told me it always smelled cause she was the only girl for the longest time.

He asked, tapping the basket.

Charlie asked, tapping the screen of Elise's micro before handing it back.

The later English artists have somewhat changed the mode of communicating motion to the slides, by attaching the screws pdrmanently to the micrometer head and tapping each micrometer screw into its slide.

By shaking or tapping the tube the original high resistance is restored.

Africa, can, however, only be enforced by special administrative machinery and at considerable expense, and this legislative action can only be regarded as temporary and preliminary to the establishment of plantations of rubber trees, which are not only easier to control, but the trees are less liable to injury from careless tapping.

In Assam and in upper Burma there are extensive forests of Ficus elastica, but to a large extent the trees have been damaged by careless tapping.

The largest known species is the drummer of the West Indies (Blabera gigantea), so called from the tapping noise it makes on wood, sufficient, when joined in by several individuals, as usually happens, to break the slumbers of a household.

The Hevea product is obtained annually by tapping the trees and coagulating the sap over a smoky fire, but the caucho is procured by felling the tree and collecting the sap in a hollow in the ground where it is coagulated by stirring in a mixture of soap and the juice of a plant called vetilla.

The two principal processes utilized in making calcium carbide by electrical power are the ingot process and the tapping process.

She shook her head to clear her anger and sat with her back to the counter, forcing herself to concentrate on the shadow world and tapping into Rhyn.s power despite the sounds of demons fighting so near the kitchen.

They have also apparently managed to identify a number of the man's accomplices by tapping his mobile telephone.

The corpse bride waited on the porch tapping her foot, declaring, " I want to celebrate my wedding night with my husband.

The new leaflet looks at some examples of tourism businesses that are demonstrating best practice in tapping into the growing winter market.

He listens to the sound of sea birds He listens to the sound of dry creepers tapping on the window pane.

Attachment is with self tapping screws to avoid thermal distortions of the type induced in the present surface by spot welding.

In some areas the night is rendered hideous by the bullfrogs - or the tapping of some nocturnal bird or beast.

But how, you may ask is e-Marketing tapping in to this source of plenty, this veritable Holy Grail of marketing nectar?

Our repertoire mainly comprises well known Irish folk songs to get the audience singing and lively jigs and reels to set the toes tapping.

The bolting machine is also very impressive (it makes tapping away with a bolting kit seem really hard work ).

Tapping all over the floor area with a small rubber mallet highlighted the areas where the tesserae were not fixed to the bed.

Try playing the William tell overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin.

Hardcore punk - I love it, smile on face (rapid) nodding head, tapping foot.

Without looking at anyone, "Uncle" blew the dust off it and, tapping the case with his bony fingers, tuned the guitar and settled himself in his armchair.

Come some night, tapping, and I will share with you a part.

As mentioned previously, a good indication that it is time to trim your dog's nails is when you hear them tapping on hard surfaces.

The settings menu is accessed by tapping the DS icon on the bottom of the main menu's touchscreen.

You go forward by tapping or hitting the A button.

Center your gun quickly by tapping the L1 button.

In 1894 he exhibited apparatus of this kind in which the tapping back of the tube of filings was effected automatically.

Too frequent tapping leads to the production of latex poor in caoutchouc, whilst tapping of trees before they are six or seven years old, and from 20-25 in.

Most of the native Sapiums have been destroyed by reckless tapping, and the merits of this genus have been somewhat overlooked and deserve reinvestigation.

The wetter off touches the top of the neck of the bottle with a moistened piece of iron and by tapping the blowing iron detaches the bottle and drops it into a wooden trough.

Aaron Burr, whose only sister married Tapping Reeve (1744-1823), lived in Litchfield with Reeve in 1774-1775.

This has led to restrictive measures, the vines being tapped under definite regulations as to the manner and time of tapping, and also to requirements as to replanting vines to take the place of those which have been injured or destroyed, certain areas being periodically closed.

One of the most important subjects in connexion with rubber plantations is the method to be adopted in tapping the trees for latex.

The juice extracted by tapping the great aloe before flowering was fermented into an intoxicating drink about the strength of beer, octli, by the Spaniards called pulque.

The old man was still sitting in the ornamental garden, like a fly impassive on the face of a loved one who is dead, tapping the last on which he was making the bast shoe, and two little girls, running out from the hot house carrying in their skirts plums they had plucked from the trees there, came upon Prince Andrew.

I think he's been tapping the escrow account and that's a giant no-no.

Jenn found a stick and carefully returned to the portal, tapping the ground to find where it was solid.

Tapping the iPad screen to keep it from falling asleep, she flipped through to her rules.

Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not stir.

In the case of a tree from seven to ten years old, tapping is so arranged that by the time the last incisions on the original growth are made, the new growths on other portions are at least four years old, and ready for new incisions to be made.

A fortnight later the same manoeuvres, combined with constant "tapping" at the Confederate defences, caused him to fall back again.

The Caspian remained; and it had for long been a common saying with foreign merchants that the best way of tapping the riches of the Orient was to secure possession of this vast inland lake.

And tapping with her heels, she ran quickly upstairs to see Vogel and his wife who lived on the upper story.

Its enormous railway facilities and its geographical situation as the junction of the great trunk lines running north and south, tapping also the Staffordshire potteries on the one side and the great mineral districts of Wales on the other, constitute Crewe station one of the most important links of railway and postal communication in the kingdom.

If carefully conducted, tapping does not injure the tree.

This may be relieved by tapping the cavity with a small hollow needle (Southey's trocar), or by passing into it a large sharp-pointed tube.

I have found it a convenient medium of communicating with Helen when she is at some distance from me, for it enables me to talk with her by tapping upon the floor with my foot.

Sighing, Jessi tried tapping the ground, waving her fingers, even using her ponytail to try to lure the cat out.

The ordinary forms of metallic filings coherer of the Branly type require tapping to bring them back to the high resistance or sensitive condition.

These vines are less satisfactory than trees as rubber producers, owing to the readiness with which they are injured and destroyed by careless tapping, and to the difficulty of regulating these methods in the case of vines distributed over enormous areas of forest.

The tree is ready for tapping at about the same age as Hevea and the average yield of rubber is about the same.

Great enlargements, by tapping new sources of supply, were made in 1891-93, while since 1902 works have been in progress for bringing a new supply of pure water from the region of the Salza, a distance of nearly 150 m.

The reappearance of the residual charge is promoted by tapping the glass.

That the sense of touch is highly developed seems quite certain, because the bird, although it may not be audibly sniffing, will always first touch an object with the point of its bill, whether in the act of feeding or of surveying the ground; and when shut up in a cage or confined in a room it may be heard, all through the night, tapping softly at the walls..

The noises made by some Ptinidae (Anobium) tapping on the walls of their burrows with their mandibles give rise to the "death tick" that has for long alarmed the superstitious.

It is possible to tap or prick trees daily for a number of years without apparent injury, but the practice of tapping on alternate days appears to be safer and to afford equally satisfactory if not better results.

America, and it is therefore probable that with greater experience as to the best methods of tapping and with older trees considerably larger yields may be expected from plantations in the future.

They have also adopted the policy of selecting favourable town-sites on the uninhabited prairie, erecting grain elevators at such points, and furnishing transportation facilities by means of branch roads tapping the main lines of travel.