Ticking in example sentence

The Kurds in the north cleverly and adeptly used the window of opportunity that opened before them to seize de facto independence, though the key question of control over the northern city of Kirkuk remains a ticking time bomb.

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My clock is ticking.

Now here, I'm not simply talking about the ticking time bomb that is the global population.

You look up, half-erased chalkboard, you can see that perfectly written cursive alphabet, the pull-down maps, you can hear, tick, tick, tick, ticking on the wall, that industrial clock.

We know that our doctors and nurses and even social workers aren't enough, that the ticking minutes of health care are too constraining.

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