Sentence examples for tick of an from inspiring English sources

Those endless streets of identical houses represented claustrophobia, and the muffled tick of an afternoon clock, the deadening of any creative spirit.

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

Each flick of the page now suggests the tick of a countdown.

It begins in a darkened tent with the tick of a metronome, the shriek of wild laughter, the stamping of feet and the shattering of glass.

It's enough to make a man long for the days when all you heard from even the costliest accessory was the faint tick of a sleek watch.

But during livelier passages, a reader may hear the patter of footsteps, a booming gong, a crackling fire or the tick of a grandfather clock.

On entering a room, a person may be aware of the regular one-second tick of a grandfather clock, but the ticking soon fades from awareness as other things command attention.

I thought my biological clock might manifest as an annoying tick of a metronome, a drone that I could silence with a long run or a good book; instead it's more like an army fervently pounding down my door.

As long as I can disable Crossfire with the tick of a box I'm happy.

A drum being slowly beaten at what we presumed to be the entrance to the Experience became like the tick of a clock — yet neither time, nor the line, ever moved forward.

The likelihood that a rodent encountered a tick of a particular developmental stage in any month of the study was investigated by using variables developed (as described previously) in investigations of the seasonal activity of ticks.