Sentence examples for tiny clicking from inspiring English sources

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(I actually know a college student who can call up a particular song without ever looking at his iPod. He counts the tiny clicking sounds as he turns the scroll dial in his pocket).

Then, there are the automatons that Robert-Houdin built in the mid-nineteenth century, tiny clicking cogs and wheels and whirring clockwork: a brass Chinaman actually does the cups and balls, and each time the cups come up something new is underneath them.

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Tiny clicks.

There was a tiny click, and a voice spoke.

The floorboards creaked; followed, as if in response, by the tiny clicks.

Others were pointed at the sun, and you could hear tiny clicks as they tracked its arc.

Even the tiny clicks of expanding and contracting overhead lights sounded fortissimo against the quietness of Osborne's playing.

As the fencers looked on in astonishment, they walked four paces, turned, and fired simultaneously, each pistol giving forth a tiny click.

That referred to the Art Deco inspiration of geometric lines, a lean silhouette and a tiny click on Gucci's memory bank when printed silk, as for scarves, slithered around the knees of a flapper dress.

Or really just bits of records: "Send It On" from D'Angelo's "Voodoo" (serene, layered falsettos; mentholated keyboards; a tiny click of a rhythm); "Woods" from Bon Iver's "Blood Bank" (a cappella, Auto-Tuned, slack-eyed R&B, again with layered falsettos); possibly "Que Sera, Sera," from Sly and the Family Stone's "Fresh" (gospel cadences, ragged harmony).

"What's the sound of eyes rolling, the tiny click click of thumbs on smart phones, slutty Rihanna whining from a bedroom radio left on?

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