Sentence examples for tick on from inspiring English sources

As the weeks tick on, a list of books forms in your mind, one to which you grow unreasonably attached.

The clock began to tick on their application for the residence.

Six years later, I have only a slightly better sense of what makes a commercial kitchen tick on all cylinders.

Go through your emails and tick on the ones you believe are spam.

The clocks tick on — seven-fifty, eight o'clock.

When dot-coms like Pets.com bombed, the investing public could watch the stock prices plummet tick by tick on exchanges.

That was just about acceptable when a website was simply a box to tick on the promotional round.

That means Leigh Halfpenny can tick on to 502 points in a Wales shirt.

The economic engine had to tick on.

A verification tick on Tinder is practically a license to fuck anyone you want.

The clocks tick on seven-fifty, eight on seven-fifty