If the correct word appears on the list, the user can merely tap it with the pen.
If so, they were merely tapping into DeMille's own sense of superiority to his material and audience.
So Esiason merely tapped Monk on the back as they walked to the huddle.
The choking is merely tapping them on the back.
We have to clean the boy up so the judge will merely tap his wrist.
But the clerk merely tapped in the stopper to the jug.
The baron would wait, of course, accepting this tapping merely as a warning of a visit.
This group disputes the notion that American exports merely tap into an "existing market," for example.
"Merely tapped him on the head, that's all."