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Ticks in sentence

48 examples of Ticks in a sentence

He has forgotten to turn off his watch, which ticks, like a metal pulse against his wrist.
It's basically a measure of how many tigers, toads, ticks or whatever on average of biomass of various species are around.
This is a big deal, so the ticks and crosses on the screen are actually critical for young kids.
Those ticks and crosses represent the 7,800 houses we've looked at nationally around Australia, the same proportion.
But the changing conditions change the latitudes and the areas where these microbial diseases can become endemic and change the range of the vectors, like mosquitoes and ticks that carry them.
And the first glimpses of the clock, the components of the clock, and the way that it ticks were gained in the fly, actually.
They now are understanding, and the work is going on, exactly how this plant works, and we have the capability to know, to read that entire code and understand how it ticks.
On August 14th, 1947, a woman in Bombay goes into labor as the clock ticks towards midnight.
The timer ticks down towards zero, but Ethic’s program is fast.
And another thing that ticks me off is that she is always chewing a piece of spearmint every time you look at her.
His stuff has been taken and this really ticks him off.
But what really ticks me off is when the write-up on the DVD box does not indicate this fact to the potential viewer.
In a serious chess game where World Chess Champion victory is one way to immortality, the chess clock ticks, match time ends to conclude the next day.
The story of a young evacuee and his new 'foster' dad, this film ticks all the boxes.
It's just about as lousy as you would expect a movie about killer ticks to be.
That ticks me off, because this is a serious film.
Being an outdoor instructor I have had my fair share of ticks.
The Black Balloon opens with an awkward dance between filmmaker and audience, the latter trying to suss whether the able-bodied actor is playing an autistic character or is lazily impersonating the illness, all obvious ticks and embarrassingly broad gestures.
The latter has some very annoying personal ticks in his acting style.
My TV guide gave this movie 3 ticks (out of 4) and described it as a "gritty police thriller".
The first half hour is a long, drawn out affair I guess to establish Elias Koteas' character, who seems to be nothing more than a series of ticks.
but this film ticks all my boxes.
This movie does not even begin to touch on anything realistic about living in WI and calling it based on a true story just ticks me off.
The acting sucked, the effects sucked, and the ticks sucked (no pun intended).
Director Carl Schenkel's film gives Tarzan back his long-absent status as an articulate gentleman, and it contains elements of Burroughs's feverish imagination, but it dully ticks off the "adventures" without any thrilling sense of fun.
This sort of thing has been done many times before with bees,slugs,rats and even ticks so why not a creature feature with locusts.
I have Tourrette's Syndrome, and was only beginning to show the major ticks associated with it when this movie came out.
These qualities are equally reflective in his failed personal relationships that leave him to snuggle-up with ticks and mosquitoes in a tree house.
Geary plays his character like an early 1950s Jerry Lewis with all the nervous ticks and funny walks that he must have thought come with allergies.
Let me just keep teaching my class while time ticks away.