Sentence examples for as a tick from inspiring English sources
Use it as a tick chart for the half-truths, distortions and omissions.
The windows were also tight as a tick and wouldn't move unless considerable human torque was applied.
"Lo and behold, they added another guy you could view as a tick above those players," Levine said.
Once a female finds her place on the edge of the tide, she burrows into the sand as a tick would dig into smooth skin.
If that is the best Harriet Harman can do we will put that down as a tick for the coalition's development policy.
The tight-as-a-tick team of W. and Condi have been consistently culturally obtuse on the Middle East, even with a pricey worldwide operation designed to keep them in the loop.
An imaginary Republican plot to ban contraception, the illusory threat that Mitt Romney would ban abortion in cases of rape, a wave of faux-chivalric outrage over Romney's line about "binders full of women" — in a tight-as-a-tick, economy-centric election, this is the message that Obama is relying on to push him back over the top.
Identifying critical vulnerabilities requires judgment and intuition — you cannot treat it as a tick-the-box exercise.
"E-learning has got a bad name because it's seen as a tick-box exercise," he said.
