How to Use tap out in a Sentence

tap out

verb

• If your all tapped out at $60 Grand then this is the SUV for you.
  — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
• This may come as a surprise, but some of us are tapped out this time of year.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Their arms rotate to show the hours and minutes, and their feet tap out the seconds.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
• But the Orioles haven’t tapped out the pool of celebrities fit to become Mr. (or Ms.) Splash.
  — Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• Others shuffled their shoes to the beat, or tapped out the rhythm on their walkers.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
• Begin by using a hammer and nail set to tap out just one of the hinge pins.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2020
• Wind noise was remarkably low, and the car was hardly tapped out.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
• Don’t tap out quite yet, there’s still melty raclette warming over a tea candle.
  — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 9 Sep. 2024
• Anyone can tap out and walk away at any time, and everyone who’s still there at the end of the game gets the prize money.
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• Between your mother, cousin, and best friend, you may be tempted to snag a dozen gift cards and tap out.
  — Jamie Fischer, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
• Not likely to tap out in 2024: spirits with celebrities on board.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
• He was completely tapped out of the Kevin McCarthy drama.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2023
• That, and it’s become commonplace for brands that launch plus-size collections to tap out at 2X or 3X and call it a day.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 19 May 2021
• Muniz got Anders into an armbar and forced him to tap out.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 20 May 2022
• Their goal is to survive for three weeks, but there’s no prize for completing the challenge, and anyone can tap out at any time.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2020
• The original goal [for Glassjaw] was to have a record on Revelation [Records], tap out, get a day job and move on.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 9 July 2022
• Each player takes a turn tapping out a block of ice at a time until someone finally hits the wrong one and the penguin falls through.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
• To suggest that the U.S. cannot afford to fund the war against Russia, that somehow we are tapped out and compelled to take a loss in Ukraine, is flatly untrue.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
• The pain and exhaustion of pushing through an 8-mile run on a humid summer day in Maryland can cause a lot of athletes to tap out.
  — Eric Bem, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 May 2021
• In nine years, the source of more than eighty per cent of the Northwest Arctic Borough’s operating budget will tap out.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• In South Korea, consumers are tapped out as credit card and other household debt hit fresh records.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 7 June 2024
• Coat bottom and sides with extra sugar, then turn upside down and tap out excess.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2023
• To go through singles and doubles and not to tap out mentally or physically is a big, big sign.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• More Americans have been rejected for loans just as they may be feeling tapped out.
  — USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• Volunteers try to fill the gaps, but even those informal supports are nearly tapped out.
  — Jennifer Greenfield, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, the farm system is tapped out, ranked 26th by Baseball America.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Things can become more complex if someone who starts the fight backs off in the middle of it — effectively tapping out.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
• Every day, what’s left of the once-mighty ranks of reporters across this country tap out stories meant to inform, entertain and expose.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• By the early 20th century, though, the gold deposits were tapped out and Havilah became a historic ghost town.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• Rodrigo, not yet tapped out after four nights at the Kia Forum down the street, just tacked on another two at Intuit Dome for good measure.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024