"tick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Minutes ticked slowly by, until the rajah drew the cord to raise the curtains.
- One dozen minutes passed, while a huge grandfather's clock ticked slowly from its gloomy corner in the big living room.
- Minutes ticked slowly by while I oscillated between elation and despair.
- Wouldn't it be better to die with our lips upon your skin than by time's slowly ticking clock?
- Near at hand some kind of instrument was ticking slowly and regularly.
- He sat in silence, and the clock ticked slowly around.
- Then he waited, as the seconds ticked slowly by, for his mom to go to bed.
- As the seconds slowly ticked by I realized that the assault was not aimed at me.
- Despite this time bomb which is slowly ticking away, enlargement will go ahead.
- They were silencing everybody, while the clock ticked slowly around to Sunday.
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