Sentence examples for ticktock from inspiring English sources
'ticktock' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is often used as an onomatopoeic word to describe the sound of a clock ticking or a clock's movement. It can also be used figuratively to describe something that is in constant motion or progressing quickly. Example: The old grandfather clock in the corner of the room filled the quiet house with the soothing sound of ticktock, reminding me that time was passing by.
noun
The ticking sound of a clock
Other criteria perhaps involving other sense modalities might lead to slightly different spans of time, but the interesting point is that, if there is such a specious present, it cannot be explained solely by ordinary memory traces: if one hears a "ticktock" of a clock, the "tick" is not remembered in the way in which a "ticktock" 10 minutes ago is remembered.
The actions of the escapement stabilize the power of the gravitational force and are what produce the ticktock of weight-driven clocks.
This well-told tale, based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, is a prequel to Peter Pan's adventures with the Darling family, and it brings sensational news from the Never-Never Land franchise — how Peter got his name and his flying mojo, how Captain Hook lost his hand, and how the crocodile got its ticktock.
Now Davies has produced a four-hundred-page ticktock of the scandal, called "Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch".
Gradually, the swaying swells, her knees bending, her torso pitching, until she has rocked herself onto the floor in a seated position and turned her face front.. Her eyes continue to ticktock, left, right, left.
These are combined with interviews, stock flight images and recreated scenes of nervous passengers into a ticktock account of the hijackings.
(It is no surprise that the White House understands the importance of the ticktock, given that news organizations publish such articles after major events or decisions and knock on the doors of officials for the minute-by-minute details).
The big news at Breitling is that, as of this year, with the début of the Chronomat B01, the company will be manufacturing in-house "movements," which is ticktock-ese for the innards of a watch.
"Base Pairs" has been advertised as juxtaposing creationism and evolution, and its opening formation of bodies in a cross immediately becomes a clockwork of rotating arms and ticktocking torsos.
Blissed out Bushies confided to reporters doing ticktocks that W. "grilled" Condi about the contents of the letter of regret to Beijing and "peppered" his staff with questions about the crew.
And as analyzed in this space last month, a White House adviser dismissed a reporter's request for a chronology of a decision with "I don't do ticktocks".
