Sentence examples for ticking against from inspiring English sources

But the clock, as Mr Clinton also noted, is ticking against us all.

The stink of a joss stick in the air, prisms ticking against the windows.

Even when court rulings were going his way, the clock was ticking against him.

Influential Labour MP Frank Field has said the "clock is ticking" against companies who exploit workers trapped in the gig economy.

Roberta is a single woman trying to conceive, and many clocks are ticking against her; Mattie, her teenage student, has an unwanted baby in her womb; Gin, an unabashed witch, finds herself on trial for a crime she did not commit; and Susan, a former lawyer, feels trapped in her marriage and lost in motherhood.

She could hear her sneakers in the gravel, and she could hear the bugs ticking against the lights, up on their poles, but with Conner's engine throttled down low, drumming, how could she?

Its two masts ticked against the horizon like a metronome set to allegro.

Therefore we presume that IrC2/Bf functions as a convertase in the same complement activation pathway protecting ticks against yeast and Borrelia infection.

Andy Hayler, a restaurant critic and food writer, suggested the compromise idea that those with receipts could have a verification tick against their reviews.

For the disillusioned this is not just a chance to cast an angry cross or tick against austerity.

"He doesn't often announce his team this early... it's a tick against their box, it's a confidence thing".