Sentence examples for quietly tapped from inspiring English sources

When Diederich digressed, and began to speak of his children and their own journalistic efforts, Staley quietly tapped his hand against his chair.

Mr. Cohen quietly tapped away as the judge said the case was serious and gave the man a two-year sentence.

Just before LeBron James sat in that director's chair, with his checkered shirt and his impassive gaze, and made the declaration that torpedoed his Q rating, another young N.B.A. superstar quietly tapped out his own intentions on a keyboard.

The old face of age discrimination was the solitary worker quietly tapped on the shoulder and put out to pasture (Willy Loman, fired when the boss's son took over, left to complain, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away -- a man is not a piece of fruit!").

The teacher, Amy Russell, encouraged the class to quietly tap into our compassion, as St. Francis did.

If they get worried, they quietly tap the bankers on the shoulder and suggest they do something differently.

AND then there are the novelists, journalists and screenwriters, quietly tapping away in their $600-a-month apartments, seeking to make a name for themselves on Argentine soil.

On the second floor of its town house headquarters in Gowanus, Brooklyn, seven employees quietly tap away on laptops, embodying the image of a scrappy, caffeinated start-up at work.

Tom Watson is my new favourite MP. 3pm update: I may try and sit here quietly, tapping away in an effort to look busy, but I really should help Scott Murray out with the Fiver till Timofee starts.

"It's all an opportunity to speak to people," Ms. Winfrey said as she sat for an interview during the conference, a pair of glittery gold stilettos slung in her hand and a couple of handlers in the corner quietly tapping away at smartphones.

Instead of punching each other and yelling all the way to school, the kids quietly tap, tap, tap away on their laptops.