Example Sentences

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“I feel like the fouls I got were kind of tick-tack fouls that I shouldn’t have done,” Reese said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2023

All the sounds were of water: the tick-tack of melting snow hitting tin roofs, the popple of gravity-fed pipes pouring mountain water into troughs.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022

“Don’t let games end by keep calling tick-tack fouls and making -- just don’t make no sense.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2018

The conductor also nodded and hurried into the ticket-office, where the tick-tack of a conversation by telegraph was soon under way.

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry

He's rigged a tick-tack; I can see the string of it.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Smith, Ruel Perley