Sentence examples for tick of the clock from inspiring English sources

While stopped at a traffic light, with the "tick, tick, tick" of the clock loud enough to be mistaken for a turn signal, he quoted the headline of a famous Rolls-Royce print advertisement from 1958: "At 60 miles an hour, the loudest sound in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock".

"The Tick of the Clock" is written in the third person, contributing to its atmosphere of objectivity.

Others huddled in the diner's booths while fresh deals were announced with almost every tick of the clock.

There aren't so many times when you can say that, from one moment to another, with one tick of the clock, your country got safer.

As compared with Gavin, Doyle is a man who lives from minute to minute, a recovering alcoholic who gives thanks for every tick of the clock.

In "The Tick of the Clock," Walton's Chinese cook is revealed to be involved (like his employer) in the heroin trade.

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.

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

The ticking of the clock marks the passing of time.

REWINDING THE CLOCK A day later, you could still hear the ticking of the clock.

Six ticks of the clock later, the great deus ex machina of sport struck again.