How to Use tap out in a Sentence

tap out

verb
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  • 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
  • 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 | Minabinett@al.com, 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
  • There were moments when Jaffe considered tapping out, too.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The old system that was already aging tapped out after power outages from Hurricane Ian and Nicole in 2022.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
  • The match, which sometimes featured the two bigger men (and former partners) ganging up on Bryan, ended with Bryan securing the victory by forcing Batista to tap out.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024

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