Sentence examples for tick about from inspiring English sources

Never one for being even-tempered, John McCain looked like a tick about to pop in interviews last week - coming short of saying he won't cooperate with Democrats as punishment, but throwing out "sleazy deal" about as often as he said "Joe the Plumber" in the third presidential debate.

"The clock has ticked about as far as it can".

"I was ticked about the door, but that's a payment well worth it," Jones said.

It also gives austere international festivals a more democratic air, and ticks the boxes they need ticked about attracting new audiences.

Which brings me to Adam, who observed: If I read that my boss was considering layoffs I'd be kinda ticked about finding out about it first on a blog on the internet.

The analysis, as reported online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that the human molecular clock ticked about 11% more slowly than that of gorillas.

"But we've also got a good percentage of those players already in the building and the harsh reality is now that my mind is ticking about making the right decisions to help this club move forward".

"I'm still ticked about [the two losses]," she added.

I started hearing rumors about us and got ticked about it and broke up with her.

Griffin was still ticked about the takedown by Suns forward P.J. Tucker in the fourth quarter that left the two of them wrestling to get free of each other while down on the Staples Center court.

"When my brain started ticking about creating this book, and what it would look like, I started imagining all the reasons why a publisher would reject it," explains Shukla.