Sentence examples for tick the usual from inspiring English sources
Ziolkowski does not tick the usual boxes as an entrepreneur.
The programming is going to have to be exceptional, as Brian McCormick, HomePlace's manager, doubtless knows – though given that he is a nephew of Heaney's and that he used to run a pub before he landed this job, I'm inclined to believe he and his team won't just tick the usual dreary literary boxes.
And the orchestra does tick the usual social-consciousness boxes: it runs a music festival in the mountain town of Campos de Jordão a couple of hours to the north; it gives 100,000 youngsters a year the chance to hear classical music; it runs its own academy for young players; and it gives free concerts in the hall (and in parks) at the weekend.
I tick all the usual conservative boxes.
Patricia Cornwell's fame is such that she could copy out a telephone directory and it would shoot straight into the bestseller lists, and this offering, which ticks all the usual forensic thriller boxes in a brisk, unengaged manner, has the feeling of a list.
Such a setup can allow business almost as usual, yet still tick the regulators' boxes.
Please tick the most appropriate box".
"Lymelife" tosses some visual tics (and ticks) into the usual crabgrass, including an already overplayed movie fetish for the 1970s.
Both had also recently been bitten by ticks, but tests for the usual tick-borne suspects—such as several Ehrlichia species, a group of intracellular bacteria came back negative.
Second instruction sentence: "Answer every question by ticking the appropriate statement" As it is not idiomatic to use the verb "tick" in French Canadian, it was decided to use "cocher" (cross), the usual way to mark answers in this language.
