Sentence examples for full as a tick from inspiring English sources

Bragg describes his mother Margaret as a girl eating her first hot dog: it "came wrapped in wax paper, the bun warm and soft, the smell of raw onions, spicy meat and chili filling the car, and she rode the rest of the way full as a tick, mustard on her cheeks".

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.

These days, if his left ear happens to be covered by a pillow, Mr. Bellusci, 47, hears the alarm clock as a faint tick, tick, tick, not a blaring BEEP, BEEP, BEEP.

My head's fuller'n a tick on a dog.

"As tight as a tick".

As a tick specialist, he has been trawling fields, forest floors and backyards for infected black-legged ticks since 1987, when Lyme became a reportable disease.

The stress of the black noise and visual cacophony got me tight as a tick.

"I'm as full as a tick/and I'm scratching at the surface," she sang on Friday in "A Mistake"; "You can use my skin/to bury secrets in," in "I Know"; "You feed the beast I have within me," in "Limp"; "If you catch me trying to find my way/into your heart from under your skin/fast as you can, baby scratch me out," in "Fast as You Can".

Both parties see that as a ticking time bomb.

"Where are you from?" was as constant a noise as a ticking clock.

But H.G.E. will probably not become as common a tick-borne infection as Lyme disease.