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    Use "ticking" in a sentence

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    ticking


    1. That time is ticking by


    2. she’d been involved in a long term relationship up in Bristol … it fell apart … she was considerably upset, partly because of that and partly because her sister had just got married … she was at the age when she could feel the clock ticking


    3. the ticking of the clock attracts my attention and I watch the minute hand as it slowly moves round the clockface steadily using up the minutes of my life


    4. under the ever ticking clock-face of consumer excess faded out completely


    5. I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress


    6. The clock’s ticking


    7. and on that hand a softly ticking pulse of vein, muscle and artery


    8. ticking off the seconds


    9. ’ Jane said in a matter of fact voice, almost as though she were ticking off an item on a list


    10. had been told in classes that the ticking was caused by the portal

    11. when heavy, with the regularity of a ticking clock


    12. He can hear the clock ticking on the wall as he steels himself for the inevitable rekindling of Maggie’s mid-week fire


    13. He parks up and sits for a few minutes, letting the ticking of the cooling engine mark out his time


    14. Bruce wandered around the activity ticking off jobs from a mental checklist


    15. The only sounds are of a CLOCK TICKING and the MUFFLED BEACH


    16. ” Crissy could almost hear Helez’s brain ticking away, trying to absorb all she had learnt in one evening


    17. He’d become familiar with every one of them over the years; the ticking of the hot water pipes as they expanded and contracted, the hum of the fridge in the kitchen, the drip of the bath tap, each one now loud in his ears


    18. But the flame of adventure had begun to burn in my bones, a different kind of biological clock ticking, and I had packed up my teddy bear, some pretty cotton clothes, a vast supply of skin care products, and climbed aboard for the South Pacific


    19. Vanessa was another story, for she was a ticking time-bomb and her threats to Klausburger's well-being drove him over the edge,� replied Steve as he closed the file on Senator Klausburger


    20. Lexi was ticking all the boxes as they say

    21. One could have said that things were ticking along with military precision if it wasn’t for Steve who was roaming the stands making lewd gestures, not being able to hold his water like a grown-up should, making faces and obscene gestures at passers-by, and generally blending in seamlessly with the rest of the fair-going crowd


    22. The clock is ticking on their religion


    23. Inhibition did not resolve the negative emotions, but just store negative emotions in the brain, with the accumulation of negative emotions, negative emotions in the area of the brain is like a ticking time bomb, may explode at any time, and the emotional


    24.  Some owners have reported success by wrapping an old ticking clock up in a towel and placing it in the dog's bed


    25. This is said to comfort the dog as the ticking clock replicates the sound of another dog's heartbeat


    26. The clock's been ticking & ticking & ticking so once you steer to it


    27. plot was forming and the creational clock was ticking


    28. Brian glared at his over eager officer, time was ticking on and


    29. It was all about the eternal ticking clock, and my grandpa always lavished me


    30. He was used to a concrete threat, a gun, a ticking time bomb, or a physical presence

    31. The Pastor started ticking names off on his fingers


    32. He could almost hear a clock ticking in his


    33. There was nothing to hear save the occasional ticking of the engine as it cooled down


    34. Picking it up he stared at it seconds ticking by, when a sudden and swift revelation dawned on him


    35. The tic tic ticking stops


    36. The ticking has stopped along with my breath


    37. Bryony shouted a warning, but the sound died in her throat as she spotted another ticking cabbage bouncing towards her


    38. The turnip bounced towards the Captain, and Bryony heard a ticking sound…


    39. the time ticking away


    40. leave, but he continued sitting there, the minutes ticking away

    41. should be a ticking clock presiding over the action in all scenes, all chapters, all acts, and for the whole book overall


    42. in his Objective, against all the odds, the Antagonist, the Conflict, the Ticking Clock, and all the rest of obstacles inside the book


    43. At this stage, these actors were two ticking time bombs on the verge of catastrophe when one decided to no longer play the part


    44. with only the ticking of the clock over the fireplace mantle breaking


    45. The clock was ticking


    46. “The clock’s ticking!” was all June heard as Angela dashed down the hospital corridor toward the elevators


    47. The ticking of the pendulum wall clock was the only sound in the room


    48. I held the watch against my ear, it was ticking away just fine


    49. The smell of gasoline was strong and I could hear the ticking of the engine as it cooled


    50. The ticking of the clock was an annoying repeat until the Sheriff’s mike buzzed and he listened intently to the dispatcher











































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    Synonyms for "ticking"

    ticking tick

    "ticking" definitions

    a metallic tapping sound


    a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers