Sentence examples similar to tapping on a wall from inspiring English sources

Walled up and forgotten for about 150 years, the coffins were discovered when a construction worker tapped on a wall during renovation work 21 years ago.

He was beaten twice, he said, once for "no reason," and once for tapping on a cell wall.

Tap on a pipe or wall so rescuers can locate you.

Tap on a pipe or wall so that rescuers can hear where you are.

McCain had communicated with the man in the next cell by tapping on the wall and listening to taps that came back.

If you're feeling confident and for whatever reason you can't use a stud finder, it's possible to approximate the location of studs by tapping on the wall.

IMAGINE being able to tap anywhere on a wall to turn the lights on and off, or to change radio stations in the dining room simply by knocking on the table.

In the first minutes of the first episode of "Shut Up," the characters will start tapping on the fourth wall of television.

In prison, Mr. McCain said the American inmates communicated by tapping on the walls of their cells.

He remembers the sound of people half-dead around him, moaning and tapping on the walls of the train, whispering hoarsely for help, words that only those who were also trapped and injured could possibly hear.

They said mobile telephones had continued to ring unattended inside the twisted fury of metal as they worked to get to people tapping on the walls and pleading for help.