TICK in a Sentence
Learn TICK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
61 example sentences for TICK, such as:
1. Tick, tick, tick went the machine.
2. Tick tick tick the machine reiterated.
3. The tick of the machine was maddening.
4. This is a pretty early tick, I reckon.
5. Tick, tick, tick the machine continued.
2. Tick tick tick the machine reiterated.
3. The tick of the machine was maddening.
4. This is a pretty early tick, I reckon.
5. Tick, tick, tick the machine continued.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TICK
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tick
n. a metallic tapping sound
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1 Yet the stage was empty; only the cows moved in the meadows; only the tick of the gramophone needle was heard.
2 The tick, tick, tick seemed to hold them together, tranced.
3 Tick, tick, tick the machine continued.
4 Only the tick tick of the gramophone held them together.
5 Tick, tick, tick, went the machine in the bushes.
6 Tick tick tick the machine reiterated.
7 The tick of the machine was maddening.
8 Tick, tick, tick went the machine.
9 We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
10 Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them.
11 This is a pretty early tick, I reckon.
12 Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion-cap box that had lately been the pinchbug's prison, and the boys separated, each feeling wealthier than before.
13 He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk.
14 Soon Tom said that they were interfering with each other, and neither getting the fullest benefit of the tick.
15 The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.
Example Sentence:
1 He made this factory tick two decades with strong knowledge of the economics and technology.
2 The government does, however, want them to have a decent grasp of what customs and values make this country tick.
3 Put a tick in the box if you agree with this statement.
4 Mrs Watts will tick you off if you're late again.
5 Afterward, they return home to their modest apartments, where some tick off the days in solitude - and poverty.
6 She ticked off three items on the list.
7 He ticked off my name on a piece of paper.
8 In the silence we could hear the clock ticking.
9 He described global warming as "an environmental time bomb ticking away".
10 Very slowly he moved forward, the engine ticking over.