"softly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- All the way along the hall to the elevator, Valet's claws ticked softly on the vinyl-tile flooring.
- His wristwatch ticked softly beside him: one o'clock, one-thirty.
- Very carefully, she shoved the shard into its slot, and the accompanying switch began to tick softly.
- The metal ticked softly as it cooled.
- At two o'clock he heard his wristwatch ticking softly.
- There was a grandfather clock taller than Reacher, ticking softly to itself once a second.
- Very faintly, off to her left, she could hear many clocks ticking softly.
- He hears the engine ticking softly to itself as it cools.
- He glanced at the ornate eighteenth-century clock ticking softly on one curved wall.
- The late Empire-period pendulum clock on the marble mantelpiece ticked softly, steadily.
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