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"Ticking" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The only sound to be heard was the ticking of the clock.
It's only when I can't sleep at night that the ticking of the clock becomes loud enough to bother me.
The ticket clerk found baggage placed under a bench in the hall, and the ticking sound inside it made him worried.
It's only when I can't sleep at night that the ticking of the clock bothers me.
The clock is ticking.
As the room fall silent, only the ticking sound of an old clock could be heard.
My alarm clock's ticking is too loud.
The clock was ticking.
The clock is still ticking.
Tom is a ticking time bomb.
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Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
Were they indeed the tickings of a hundred clocks — the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!
The combination of “monotony” and “variety,” which keeps the writer in a trance-like state between sleep and wake, is then characterized by the figure of a ticking watch: “If certain sensitive persons listen persistently to the ticking of a watch [...] they fall into the hypnotic trance; and rhythm is but the ticking of a watch made softer, that one must needs listen, and various, that one may not be swept beyond memory or grow weary of listening” (1961: 159).
a ticking time bomb
The combination of “monotony” and “variety,” which keeps the writer in a trance-like state between sleep and wake, is then characterized by the figure of a ticking watch: “If certain sensitive persons listen persistently to the ticking of a watch [...] they fall into the hypnotic trance; and rhythm is but the ticking of a watch made softer, that one must needs listen, and various, that one may not be swept beyond memory or grow weary of listening” (1961: 159).
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