605 examples of tick in sentences

At first there was silence and complete darkness, but soon after one o'clock I heard the very slight but unmistakable tick-tick, which told me that the apparition was about to appear.

At first there was silence and complete darkness, but soon after one o'clock I heard the very slight but unmistakable tick-tick, which told me that the apparition was about to appear.

It's just like when II saw him aa clock began to tick inside of me.

The motion of each was suspended; so intense, in turn, was the hush of the breathless crowd, that you could have heard a single tick, but there was none to hear.

[Old copies, tick.]

pendón, m., banner, pennant, standard. péndulo, m, pendulum, (here) tick (of the pendulum).

" For a little while the silence of the room was unbroken, save for the steady tick-tock of a great clock in one corner.

In Mrs. Beverly, in the play of the 'Gamesters' a few nights ago, she so arrested the attention of the house that you might hear your watch tick in your fob, and, at the close of the play, when she utters an hysteric laugh for joy that her husband was not a murderer, there were different ladies in the boxes who actually went into hysterics and were obliged to be carried out of the theatre.

"The very tick of the clock was enough to drive one mad in those long fearful pausessolemn and silent as death!

The clock did not tick twice before there came a reaction.

This young lady was not nervous; far from it; yet her watch seemed to tick with extraordinary vigour, and her heart to beat harder than common while she listened.

Tick, tick, went the old Dutch clock in the corner, and the smoke-jack kept up its whirring noise.

Tick, tick, went the old Dutch clock in the corner, and the smoke-jack kept up its whirring noise.

Although still in his sleeping clothes, he seized his trench tick and rushed towards them.

What makes a free-sheeter tick: Ask any good physician and he (or, as per the recent trend in MBBS graduation, she) will tell you that one's circulation must be good.

"Now get the Tick-tick and just give me a tap here with the Ooh-jah, while I give the Thing-a-me-tight a couple for his nob.

"Now get the Tick-tick and just give me a tap here with the Ooh-jah, while I give the Thing-a-me-tight a couple for his nob.

Death is coming closer to him at every tick.

He could hear the chirp of the crickets faintly from the distant kitchen, and the tick of the clock sounded loud and hollow along the passage.

R104254, 22Dec52, The Platt & Munk Co. (PWH) SWAN, KAY Tick tock clock chart.

Timothy tick-tock.

Naoma Zimmerman (A); 16Oct72; R537729. Timothy tick-tock.

If I could pay him for one suit, I could get another on tick.

"Hollo, Billy," said Wildney, confidentially, "all serene; give us two bottles of beeron tick, you know.

The whole room was bitterly silent, save for the tick of the clock.

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