Sentence examples for watch ticks from inspiring English sources

Where her watch ticks steadily her wrist itches in anticipation of handcuffs.

His fingers are inky and curve to caress an imaginary pipe bowl, or a preacher's palmful of air, and - now - the generous breast where her watch ticks away.

(Look closely at the latter's second hand and you'll see it hopping a fraction of a second every time the watch ticks).

As Piontek"s watch ticked on, so he started ticking.

The following month, the lieutenant planted his first footsteps back on home soil in New York City, the same watch ticking on his wrist.

The worst parts were trying not to [have] a heart attack, although recognising the oncoming symptoms, but not being able to slow down because of the camel, time and your watch ticking.

Blinded in an accident as a child, Murdock's hearing becomes so acute that he can hear a watch tick across a crowded courtroom or identify a lying witness by their racing heart.

He would die with the huge manuscript stacked on the mantelpiece of his bedroom, in Jean Cocteau's words like a watch ticking on the wrist of a dead soldier.

Peer through the face of Krieger's Elite stainless steel skeleton and you will see the gears that make the watch tick.

I would bring up five-minute charts and try to get a feel for what they were up to, and when I would take a position, be it long or short, I would watch tick-by-tick charts.

Watch insiders like this model for its unique Spring Drive technology: a mechanical gear train regulated not by a conventional escapement, which makes a normal watch tick, but by a flywheel controlled by a magnet.