Sentence examples for getting tapped from inspiring English sources

(F.D.R. is supposed to have said, before he became President, that not getting tapped for the Porcellian was the greatest disappointment of his life).

That's the status structure that Scene is meant to reflect, a city where the A-list is more concerned with getting into the right clubs than getting tapped for the right clubs.

To some observers, he seemed exactly the sort of person who could say (as, indeed, he is supposed to have said, although well before he became President) that not getting tapped for Porcellian when he was an undergraduate at Harvard was the bitterest disappointment of his life.

But even Chinese buyers appear to be getting tapped out.

"I began getting tapped by the fundraising and development department to help with some proposals," she says.

As big as AOL is, its market is getting tapped out: 76% of U.S. homes with PCs already have online access, according to Jupiter.

"When he gets tapped, he goes right back at them".

"Funny when some QB's gets tapped flags go flying".

It's too late.' And then I got tapped on the shoulder and that was it".

Hardly a radical, she was more the type that got tapped for a ­student-faculty committee.

He was trying to be fair, and that's great, but every time he started to have a real conversation he got tapped".