Example Sentences

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Even more telling, when there was a mutation in the Dkk4 gene, the stripes became thinner, to the point that a plain pattern called Ticked emerged.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

Tell me please, someone, why I’m, alas, Ticked off in economy class.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2019

Ticked Off Why are there so many new tick-borne diseases?

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2012

Ticked off by the almanac, it is so much time as lies between the day-dawn and the dark of evening.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill

The very sea seemed altered, and the shore; The very voices of the air were dumb; Time was an emptiness that o'er and o'er Ticked with the dull pulsation "Will she come?"

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin