Sentence examples for like a ticking from inspiring English sources

It's like a ticking time bomb".

"I felt like a ticking timebomb".

And the Greek situation is like a ticking bomb".

Tomasina — I repeat, like a ticking clock — was forty.

It feels a little like a ticking time bomb.

He said the attack on Dr. Petit set off his aggressions "like a ticking time bomb".

Plenty of people don't like a tick.

And this is well set out, with enough stunts to make it not too much like a ticking-off from the doc.

This sounds negative, but — new apps can blow up like a tick on a dog.

"Once they are in there," he said, "they are dug in like a tick".

The stigma of racism is attached to Terry like a tick on the side of a dog".