Sentence examples for tick of from inspiring English sources

The only sound is the metallic tick, tick, tick of sail hooks against masts.

When I woke in the recovery room, I could hear the faint, steady tick, tick of the mechanical valve they sewed inside me.

Each module can run on its own clock, where each step of the module coincides with a clock tick of the module's clock.

Many of the reviews tick of all the tropes "A Deadly Adoption" is parodying.

As the tick tick tick of our collective climate clock continues, I join others in sounding the alarm.

I've been meditating for many years, but there are still days when I feel like it's something I need to tick of the to do list.

FELLOW boomers, can you hear the tick-tick-tick of the biological clock?

I stayed there until dinnertime, fighting back tears, listening to the tick-tick-tick of my wristwatch.

There was the tick-tick-tick of the gas igniting on the stove and eventually the light scraping sound of food going into serving dishes.

And all three of us were terrorized by the tick-tick-tick of time and the fear that it was too late to start over.

Then silence, except for the tick...tick...tick... of the engine block, contracting as the metal cooled.