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Examples

  • The tap-tap-tap of hammers hitting shells could be heard throughout the French Quarter facility as workers busily pried open oysters and shipped their slippery meats to restaurants across the city.

    A year later, Gulf Coast still recovering from spill 2011

  • An urgent tap-tap-tap, which again is met by silence.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • In that moment of mock silence I actually did hear something: a commanding voice growing closer and clearer, punctuated by the tap-tap-tap of heels hitting the floor.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

  • There was a rapid tap-tap-tap of heels in the corridor outside the schoolroom before the door was flung open, extravagantly wide.

    The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

  • An urgent tap-tap-tap, which again is met by silence.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • In that moment of mock silence I actually did hear something: a commanding voice growing closer and clearer, punctuated by the tap-tap-tap of heels hitting the floor.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

  • In that moment of mock silence I actually did hear something: a commanding voice growing closer and clearer, punctuated by the tap-tap-tap of heels hitting the floor.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

  • An urgent tap-tap-tap, which again is met by silence.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • An urgent tap-tap-tap, which again is met by silence.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • In that moment of mock silence I actually did hear something: a commanding voice growing closer and clearer, punctuated by the tap-tap-tap of heels hitting the floor.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

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