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

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

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