"tick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tick verbo

tick + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
tick boxes • tick Tock • tick clocks
(1) box, clock
Kolokacji: 2
1. tick boxes = pudła tykania tick boxes
2. tick clocks = zegary tykania tick clocks
  • Finally, after glancing at the big, loudly ticking clock on the wall, he turned to me.
  • Wouldn't it be better to die with our lips upon your skin than by time's slowly ticking clock?
  • Babyfever (1995) was about the issue of women with ticking biological clocks.
  • The unpredictable meters remember a period when time was less affected by ticking clocks and music had not yet embraced their sense of regularity.
  • Anna's empty days are filled with restless routines and ticking clocks until a silent stranger calls.
  • Silence settled, marked only by the steadily ticking clock and never-ending rumble of the sea.
  • Jayne kept talking about kids and ticking clocks; he kept telling her he'd think about it.
  • The station covered a bomb scare in a Philadelphia hotel set off innocently by ticking clocks in a box.
  • And the fact that Kris is often shot performing inside an ominously ticking digital clock adds to the unexpected ennui.
  • This is 50's women's fiction grafted onto the 90's dreary obsession with women's ticking biological clocks.
(2) Tock
Kolokacji: 1
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 • ...

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