Sentence examples for ticky box from inspiring English sources
noun
A blank square on a form in which a check mark or cross may be placed in order to indicate a selection.
…because it doesn't fit within any ticky box guidelines until time has passed I rarely know whether I've done the right thing, it's all in retrospect (06 M 40 49 P).
Box 2 Anxiety related to professional performance: at an external level …because it doesn't fit within any ticky box guidelines until time has passed I rarely know whether I've done the right thing, it's all in retrospect (06 M 40 49 P).
In a written-through summary, police officers described it as a "ticky-box exercise" doomed to fail.
It's a much bigger question than, you know, a little ticky-box recall things: it's the fuller picture, understanding of the fuller picture isn't it?
Here, people appear to live in ticky-tacky boxes, sleep in motel-style bedrooms and work in cheerless offices.
NOWADAYS, people in Levittown can laugh about the folksy notion that they live in little ticky-tacky boxes that all look just the same.
We seem to have had a computer chip implanted in our brain about the time of "Little Boxes," the dopey and incredibly sanctimonious 1962 song about suburban conformity ("Little boxes made of ticky tacky... Little boxes all the same") that helped define the suburbs.
And now Mars Bar, the last Mohican, will fall for another ticky-tacky glass box.
Lore has it that the little houses built by Mr. Doelger, a San Francisco native and once the country's most prolific home builder, inspired Malvina Reynolds's 1962 antisuburban anthem, "Little Boxes," which starts "Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky".
The rhetoric that surrounds property letting – both commercial and residential – in contemporary London is full of buzzwords such as "experience", "excitement" and "cosmopolitan" that mask the crude facts: you're buying a little box of ticky-tacky for millions simply because of its location within a rapidly expanding property price bubble.
("And the boys go into business / And marry and raise a family / In boxes made of ticky tacky / And they all look the same").
