Ticking in sentence

101 examples of Ticking in a sentence

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.

And one of the first things I read was a speaker in the States saying that she felt fine until she came onstage, and then she saw the timer ticking down.

One billion people will need jobs in Africa, so if we don't grow our economies fast enough, we're sitting on a ticking time bomb, not just for Africa but for the entire world.

To learn how and why Whitopias are ticking, I immersed myself for several months apiece in three of them: first, St. George, Utah; second, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and third, Forsyth County, Georgia.

I slam the door behind me, climb up, go past this place where I see a pendulum ticking.

Even the ticking of a clock itself is a sort of rhythm.

Remember that ticking clock?

It starts simply by ticking a box.

The clock is ticking.

In a little under two hours, about half the fluorine will be gone due to radioactive decay, so the clock is ticking to get the scan done.

It's presently in London, and is ticking away very deliberately at the science museum there.

Because the clock is ticking for all of us.

You'll see it sort of ticking over with this response.

Here's an insect's cell, and it will respond in a second when I press this button, and you'll see it sort of ticking over with this response.

So the clock started ticking.

I've gone and had an fMRI myself, to see how my visual cortex is ticking over.

You put them all together, mix them up in a bouillabaisse, and you have consumer confidence that's basically a ticking time bomb.

I can actually hear it now, because I see my time is ticking off.

So, every time my heart would beat, I'd hear the beep-beep-beep-beep, you know, the ticking, really loud.

I see my time is ticking.

KA: And there was therefore this ticking clock, because Giuliani was obviously out three months after that.

Sam Harris: Yeah, well I think I tried to broach this in a sentence, watching the clock ticking, but the question is: What is voluntary in a context where men have certain expectations, and you're guaranteed to be treated in a certain way if you don't veil yourself?

And in the lower left hand corner there's a clock ticking away from 1982 to 1998 and then cycling again.

Christine Lahti (Sandy Dunlap) and Mary Tyler Moore (Holly Davis) worked well with soapish material, Ted Danson did his best with a thankless role of Chip Davis The premise of this that the two ladies' friendship, one a seemingly happily married woman and the other a career woman who is aware of her biological clock ticking.

Imagine living your life not knowing if you have a time bomb ticking away inside you.

Indeed, his sort of daft giddiness bears, to this writer, the shadow of Tom Baker's Doctor, with his sort of subconscious asides (as when ticking off time periods when Mickey is holding down the button in the Tardis), yet brings his own aloof superiority a la McCoy's Doctor as he lets events coalesce around him.

There's always an irritating sound in the background whether it's a loud watch ticking, a blaring siren, a train whistling, or even the horrible score by Quincy Jones.

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