Sentence examples for constantly ticking from inspiring English sources

Her new "conceptual and interactive" project, the Wonder Clock, isn't actually all that conceptual: it's a constantly ticking biological clock.

"When the housing market was constantly ticking upwards, these new provisions would not have mattered so much," Ms. Constantine-Davis said.

So, although there's plenty of repetitive hack-and-slash action, there's also the ability to earn money or invest in property to keep your coffers constantly ticking over.

It just stored everything away I believe the only way he could stop it from constantly ticking was to take to his bed and have himself knocked out, once or twice a year".

How can you live on that?' Because she is such a bugger to spend time with, constantly ticking off hacks and telling them how to do their jobs, Donohoe, unlike so many of her colleagues in the acting fraternity, has always made for great copy, because it would seem that she has never really felt the need to make herself likeable.

There's the noise of a click constantly ticking in the background as a low hum becomes a louder hum.

l've got a lot of things on my mind and I'm under a lot of pressure, so my thoughts are just constantly tick tock tick tock, and I find it hard to sleep.

She was quite demented by then, a dementia of alternating kinds: one in which she believed herself still in control of things, and constantly ticked off the nurses for imaginary mistakes; the other, acknowledging that she had lost control, in which she became a child again, with all her dead relatives still alive, and what her mother or grandmother had just said of pressing importance.

If it isn't working, try again later, but don't ask constantly or tick them off.

He claimed he would have been a Third Division player if it hadn't been for Johan Cruyff but became the focal point of the emblematic, mould-breaking Dream Team that racked up four successive league titles; the metronome that kept them ticking over, constantly moving the ball on with a single touch; the man Atlético Madrid striker Kiko described in a word: "pam".

After Ian Bell clipped Shaminda Eranga tamely to mid-wicket, Cook and Trott added 83 for the second wicket, not often finding the boundary but constantly keeping the scoreboard ticking.