Sentence examples for door tapping from inspiring English sources

Expect to find arty types – the Biscuit Factory gallery is just next door – tapping away on laptops at the next table.

It was just going, 'Click, click.' There was a cop standing next to the door, tapping on the window.

Depending on the sound transmittance of the door, tapping firmly with a key on the door may make a loud sound throughout the elevator shaft.

"What else am I going to do?" He closed the passenger-side door, tapped twice on the roof and watched his friend drive off.

As I got out of my rental, the door tapped the side of the car that had just pulled in beside mine and left only a few inches to spare.

"So I followed them to the door, tapped that bitch on the shoulder and said, 'Excuse me, was there something wrong with the service?'".

The police joined in, ostentatiously raiding luxury apartments, knocking down doors, tapping telephones, putting up "wanted" posters, consulting psychics.

Atherton was a difficult, obsessive man whose scholarly interests meant that he was most often to be found locked behind his study door ("tap, tap, tap", went his typewriter, forbiddingly).

For its bravado, its inventiveness, its low prices, its attempt to ease the suffering of those waiting at the door by tapping a small keg of free beer, and its promise to give some of its earnings on each entree to a food bank, Mission Chinese was the most exciting restaurant of the year.

And before knocking on a single door, he tapped his cellphone to pull up voter files on each person.

They began making nervous conversation, and on her way out the door, Ms. Fox tapped Mr. Bergman on the arm said, "I'll see you around".