"tick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It has been ticking away for around 250 years.
- On top of this, the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode.
- "The time is ticking for China on this front."
- The watch ticked for a long time, very loudly in the captain's ears.
- Muffled mechanism would tick for five minutes, then go off.
- The clock might tick itself to death for all she cared.
- Then he waited, as the seconds ticked slowly by, for his mom to go to bed.
- The clock is ticking for these people, and they know it.
- It would tick over perfectly without her for a few weeks.
- Although it has been good to you so far, I think time might be ticking for this car.
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