"tick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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