Sentence examples for made it tick from inspiring English sources

I knew I had to learn what made it tick".

"His work pulled apart exactly what made it tick and what was needed to conserve it.

I had been covering the court for more than 20 years, and I thought I understood what made it tick.

Prochnik treats Zweig as a tragic symbol of cosmopolitan Mitteleuropa, and of the secularised Jewish culture that so often made it tick and made it shine.

Legend has it that he was given a watch at the age of six when he was in bed with smallpox, and spent hours taking it to pieces to understand what made it tick," he added.

"The story of his marriage to Linda and still being a gay man seemed to me a very unusual kind of story, and I wanted to investigate it a lot more and find out more about what made it tick and made it work or not work".

Though not, strictly speaking, a Baltimorean her parents moved there when she was six she has an assured feel for the city, its surprising diversity, its texture, what makes it tick.

What is refreshing about Outside Verdict is that it examines the church as a living and breathing organisation and brings to life the people who make it tick and those who induce its sclerosis.

Some of the time, I hear about a game and I actively make an effort to play it, to get under its surface systems, to understand what makes it tick.

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