Sentence examples for was tapped for from inspiring English sources

In 1944 he was tapped for the Manhattan Project to analyze radioactivity in nuclear fission.

In France, Ross was tapped for Officer Training School, but flunked the test out of cussedness.

Meanwhile, the Neediest Cases Fund was tapped for $463 to pay back rent.

I waited each year with keen interest to see who was tapped for the equivalent of lifetime tenure.

Even Jason Krejza, with his 12-wicket debut match in India, was tapped for 358 runs in getting them.

After graduating she was tapped for a prestigious if mildly terrifying gig, replacing another designer in two high-profile Mozart productions at the Barbican.

When Jackson was tapped for the exclusive secret society Skull and Bones, he joked, "If my name had been reversed, I never would have made it".

In a dizzying turn, by Thursday Mr. Crystal, an old hand who has hosted the show eight times, the last one in 2004, was tapped for a comeback.

His reputation after seven years at the NASA flight center at Edwards had preceded him, and so he was tapped for the astronaut corps.

At Oxford, Mount was tapped for the exclusive Bullingdon Club; he enjoys a certain notoriety for having been rolled down a hill in a portable toilet.

Returning to the production, Mr. Dorst was tapped for this assignment only after the festival's first choice, the acclaimed film director Lars von Trier, withdrew.