tick

Example Sentences

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Its engine tick tick ticked, steaming against the cold.

From Literature

Maybe I could just stay here in this chair and life would go on as though Elliot wasn’t holding a ticking time bomb.

From Literature

Attwood describes her new show, The Heat as "a big tick for my career" as she was brought in to host, "doing something completely different by not making it about myself".

From BBC

In addition to raising the price to $31 a share, Paramount increased its regulatory termination fee to $7 billion and accelerated the ticking fee to start after Sept. 30 rather than next year.

From The Wall Street Journal

The NHS says the main symptom is ticking, which involves repetitive sounds or movements you cannot choose or control.

From BBC