Sentence examples for tick on the from inspiring English sources

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

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

As one high-profile designer recalls of last year's event: "There was a box to tick on the application form about whether you intended to recycle, but they didn't do anything to encourage it.

When I first saw the production at the Komische, I worried that the musical performance was restricted by the film, despite 900 live cues that make the movie tick on the night.

The comedy is certainly broad – another of Poulter's most-discussed scenes involves a tarantula biting his balls, for which he donned a large prosthetic: "That was uncomfortable to say the least… to be wearing a swollen testicle, with your trousers round your ankles, on the side of the road: tick, tick, tick on the embarrassment checklist," he grins.

"There was no other way to do it," he says, "no box to tick on the marriage certificate [as there is for a woman taking a man's name]." Instead, there were several months of administrative hell: when the new Mr Myddelton sent letters to banks and mobile-phone companies to notify them of his name change, he was greeted with confusion.

The clock ticked on in the hot apartment.

Ticking on the incorrect ones will only land you up in trouble in the future.

But the clock is ticking on the chameleon act.

Above your desk, the clock is ticking; on the shop floor, the camera is rolling.

"In terms of climate safety, the clock is ticking on the transition to clean energy".