Sentence examples for that pat on from inspiring English sources

"I need that pat on the back".

Let's earn that pat on the back we like to give ourselves by choosing wisely what we do with our dollars.

Last week, we witnessed not once, not twice, but three times that pat on the head, that slight murmur of surprise at what women can achieve.

Not that many in Occupy Wall Street would want that pat on the back, said Nicholas Colas, the chief market strategist for the ConvergEx Group.

The clock at Sandy Hook Elementary read 9 04 a.m. when he dropped Jesse off, Mr. Heslin said, and his son "hugged me and held me, and I can still feel that hug and that pat on the back".

"I can still feel that hug, and that pat on the back.

So she pitched a few lines, too, and was met with "that pat-on-the-head thing".

Accessory manufacturer Amzer has gone and made an absolute beast of a battery; one that pats the Seido battery on the head, gives it a juice box, and tells it to go take a nap.

But I can't help being bugged by that warm, fuzzy moment at the end, that figurative pat on the head.

Vecsey and Strawberry seem to believe that a pat on the back from Jeter will lift Rodriguez's game.

Victor Homola (NYT) ITALY: A PAT IS NOT A CRIME Italy's highest appeals court upheld a verdict that a pat on the bottom does not amount to sexual harassment.