Sentence examples for lightly tapped from inspiring English sources

One man lightly tapped out a beat on a Persian drum; another young woman passed around a hymnbook, in English, so that newcomers could sing along.

My mother very lightly tapped him on the bottom and he turned around, put his hands on his hips and said: "No one has the right to touch my body without my permission".

3. Kansas City Chiefs 1999 record: 9-7 STRENGTHS -- His peers marvel at his athleticism at tight end, but Tony Gonzalez believes he has only lightly tapped his talent.

A chisel, placed in position against the edge of the block, is lightly tapped with a mallet; a crack appears in the direction of cleavage, and slight leverage with the chisel serves to split the block into two pieces with smooth and even surfaces.

As his muscular legs pumped in an ever quickening cadence yesterday, and his feet lightly tapped the pavement below his thin but sturdy frame, the daring Mouaziz was leaving the lead pack in the New York City Marathon, breaking away with the force of a rocket separating from its booster.

Sitting across from one another, separated by their computer monitors and wearing headphones, the two were motionless except for their left hands, which lightly tapped their keyboards, while their right hands executed a series of precise jerks on their mice as they guided their red and green characters through a virtual world.

The waitress in the fishnet set down my Cognac and lobster knuckles, lightly tapping my shoulder with her nipple.

Despite state-of-the-art electronic shifters from Shimano, which allow him to change gears by lightly tapping a switch, using the prosthetics "will be hard," he said.

Meanwhile, intersecting lines are of more concern to Nicolas Kiefer, who likes to lightly tap the corner of the court with his racket before returning serve.

At Kaye Playhouse, she was accompanied only by Benjamim Taubkin on piano and Cyro Baptista on percussion; sometimes she picked up a small percussion instrument as she sang, lightly tapping or swishing an additional layer of rhythm.

Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., have all recently begun introducing "smart cards" to their transit systems -- passes with embedded computer chips that require riders only to lightly tap them over a target on a reader.