Pressing a button starts a loud ticking and, after a random time interval, the sound of an explosion.

Inside the kitchen they were greeted with the loud ticking of an electric clock.

The only sounds in the room were his heavy breathing and the loud ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece.

A slow loud ticking came from everywhere at once, and every distinct sound had something of eternity in it.

The universe is not ready for such loud ticking.

It gave up, and the clock suddenly stopped its loud ticking.

She passed the grandfather dock without even noticing its loud ticking.

Outside, the city was so silent that he could hear the loud ticking of the new town clock on the other side of the square.

For at least the prenatal studies, there is the loud ticking of the biological clock.

Its call is described as a loud explosive ticking.