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How to use rapped in a sentence

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There was a light at the back of the building and she rapped on the glass hoping someone would hear.
He rapped on the door once, and it opened to reveal a wizened old woman carrying a cord with knots in it.
He rapped gently upon the door, and it was opened by a tall, freckled boy with dirty blonde hair.
Brass lettering spelled SUPERINTENDENT on it, and Spade rapped loudly on the wood.
She rapped the solid oak door three times, before turning the golden handle and entering the stuffy room.
Senior police officers have been rapped for not keeping a close eye on batches of seized cocaine and heroin.
Whatever opinion I may have is going to be drowned out by the sound of a wooden spoon being rapped sharply on the side of a mixing bowl.
Separately, Byrne was rapped on the knuckles by the Dublin District Court for holding illegal teenage discos in the West Stand.
The Honourable Sir Ralph Mountharten sharply rapped his meerschaum pipe against the surface of his mahogany writing desk.
Charlie shifted in her seat and rapped her fingers nervously on the armrest of her chair.
When I was done packing, I went downstairs and rapped smartly on their front door.
He clipped the ropes to the new anchors, rapped and unstuck the ropes and prussiced back up to the anchors.
Without dismounting, he drew his broadsword and rapped the hilt against the gate.
Last night, while I read on the chesterfield, he rapped on the window to ask me about something.
He attempted to sweep the second ball he faced, but was rapped on the pad and Asad Rauf gave him out.
But when the going gets tough, the tough get going and in the final ten minutes they rapped over three points to earn victory.
The teacher rapped on the chalkboard with a yardstick, making some of the kids fall out of their desk comically.
After this was done he moved to the coffin and rapped on the lid three times.
At that moment Peach looked their way and rapped on the table with a jeweled rod.
She had reached the door to her mother's room, and gently rapped on it until she called out.
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When he came to the vicarage he drew up sharply and rapped heavily on the gate.
The effort brought on a fit of coughing, which was still shaking him, when a whipstock rapped upon the door.
The little judge rapped on the table with his paperknife and urged the reader afresh upon his wild career.
He had fearsomeness enough of his own to send him rearing and pawing the air until the whiffle-trees rapped his knees.
A clape called at them raucously as he rapped out his warning on a dead limb beside the road.
Then she rapped the floor and walls, and could discover no indications of hollowness.
He rapped on the door with his knuckles, ignoring both the knocker and the bell.
He rapped at the door, and it was opened by Mrs. Bartlett, with some surprise.
A civil defense official brought up a Geiger counter, but no matter how he shook it and rapped on it, it refused to click.
Georgie then rapped four times the rapper within the room rapped twice, and Georgie rapped seven times.
The drill sergeant rapped out a jarringly emphatic accent against a tree with her staff.
Then grasping the rapper, the Major lifted it and rapped hard several times.
The first man up, a left-hander, rapped a hard twisting liner to right field.
At the bottom of the stair the policeman rapped on a door with his nightstick, a good loud rap.
At the hotel I found Newcomb's room number, went to it and rapped on the door.
As he spoke, he vivaciously rapped his friend on the shoulder with his stick.
The headmaster stood up and rapped on his table with a knife.
The French soldiers rapped them back with the scabbard of their sidearms.
At last he walked to the closed door of his helper's room and rapped.
Dora rapped on the window-pane with her knitting needle as she spoke.
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