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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tap at" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a light knock or touch, often referring to a sound made when someone knocks on a door or surface.
Example: "I heard a tap at the door and wondered who it could be."
Alternatives: "a knock on" or "a rap at".
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David helped everyone to cups of hot chocolate from a tap at a nearby stand.
There was a tap at the door at five in the morning.
By Nora Ephron There was a tap at the door at five in the morning.
One evening in December, he sat at a… There was a tap at the door at five in the morning.
Mad Hatter brews nearby (15-37 Caryl Street), and opens to the public as a "tap" at various times.
We need to feel for my heroine Isabel when she hears a tap at the window one night.
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It was still pitch black when I heard a tapping at my door.
The poem tells the story of a man who, "once upon a midnight dreary," while mourning his dead love, Lenore, answers a tapping at his chamber door, to find "darkness there and nothing more".
For instance, my friend Lance did a crail tap at a skatepark.
He was both a tap dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem during the 1920s and a communist.
Enraptured, Elice wrote a letter that night on yellow legal paper, inviting Rees to come see him do a tap number at a benefit.
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