Sentence examples for hand tick from inspiring English sources

Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by.

On a clear, chilly evening in October, Mr. Krukis, Mr. Vinokur and the mechanic turned one of the clocks on and stood on the scaffold to watch the long black hand tick five minutes in sync with their wristwatches.

Like a mechanical puppet, she waved her hand — tick, tock — in time with the bounce of the chorus.

In the corner of the screen, a clock kept time, the second hand ticking loudly, as if to remind us all to keep breathing.

Or at least, not in the sense that they mean: a clock hand ticking past midnight is never going to turn me into a mung bean-munching, alcohol-abstaining, chocolate refusenik.

As the second hand ticked, four men — three disguised as women with long blond tresses, sunglasses and winter scarves — stood in front of an intercom and demurely requested to enter the fabled Harry Winston jewelry store on Avenue Montaigne.

The worst thing you can do is sit in bed and watch the hands tick by.

Martyl Langsdorf, an artist who designed one of the most enduring visual images of the 20th century, the Doomsday Clock, with its hands ticking toward midnight as a symbol of impending nuclear destruction, died March 26 at a rehabilitation facility in Schaumburg, Ill.

Kanye West, on the other hand, ticks all the boxes.

And Mr. Rasmussen, with pen in hand, ticks off what has to be done, by whom and when.

Imagine someone falls into a black hole, and, while falling, she flashes a light signal to us every time her watch hand ticks.