"tick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tick verbo

tick + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
tick boxes • tick Tock • tick clocks
verbo + tick
Kolokacji: 3
start ticking • begin ticking • keep ticking
tick + preposición
Kolokacji: 18
tick off • tick over • tick down • tick in • tick on • ...
tick + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 6
tick away • tick loudly • tick slowly • tick quietly • tick softly • ...
(1) away, slowly, upward
Kolokacji: 3
(2) loudly, quietly, softly
Kolokacji: 3
1. tick loudly = zaznacz głośno tick loudly
2. tick quietly = zaznacz cicho tick quietly
3. tick softly = zaznacz łagodnie tick softly
  • 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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