Sentence examples for tick of the from inspiring English sources

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

Behold the digital trigger, tick of the finger on the hand separated from its body by the bomb at the police station, the rifle smoking just beyond it, as though it might yet shoot again, the digital tick of the bomb's timer also disembodied now.

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

According to the second interpretation, the program waits for a clock tick of the clocks given as the argument of the pause statements, and the execution proceeds to the next pause statements, waiting there for the next tick.

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.

The tick of the oven timer sounded hoarse as it slipped into its last minutes.

Inter-species conflict, it seems, is but a tick of the doomsday clock away.

Rutgers dominated the pace of the game today, working every possession down to the final tick of the shot clock.

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.

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

CA1 therefore explicitly encodes elapsed time, with each 'tick' of the hippocampal clock represented by a specific set of activated neurons.