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How to use tick-tock in a sentence

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If you want something of a play-by-play on what happened, he has a pretty good tick-tock on the specifics.
The two neurones alternate in activity, like the steady tick-tock of a clock.
You can feel it throbbing and it's this, like the tick-tock of a clock, that sends you back to sleep.
The search for rhythmic patterns is so ingrained that given the persistent ticking of a clock we organise the beat into a pattern of tick-tock.
It speaks of winter days sitting snug and cosy, the lamp lighting my page, toes gently toasting, and the quiet tick-tock of the clock.
A fine piece of reporting lays out in tick-tock form how the program allowed itself to be taken in by the sloppy frauds.
On Friday, we'll give you a tick-tock countdown on what's going to happen from Friday to Monday.
They were concerned about having the ability to recreate a chronology, a tick-tock of what had happened.
Just to give you a bit of a tick-tock here, the president is going to make his way through the crowd.
The script at each stop was a tick-tock of his accomplishments sprinkled with sharp jabs at Republicans.
The tick-tock of his misdeeds indicates that he shrewdly exploited his bosses' sympathy for his psychological problems.
See the tick-tock for our entire three-day summit, from panel discussions to interviews and performances.
A lesser composer might well have established an unvarying tick-tock to run throughout the movement.
No matter what Poplavskaya was doing, it performed its duty: tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
The most subtle will have acknowledged in the harmony of the bottom the lanscinant tick-tock of a clock built on the measure of the piece.
The second movement opens with the tick-tock effect that earned the symphony its subtitle.
Each day, he sits on the edge of his bed, head hung in a state of lonely tristesse while the mellifluous tick-tock of a grandfather clock marks time.
Ben sat quietly, listening to the tick-tock of the grandfather clock.
The tick-tock of the clock was amplified and I glanced at it as a reflex.
Tapping accuracy was computed based on how closely their taps aligned in time to the tick-tock of the metronome.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The tick-tock of the clock and the crackle of the consuming wood were the only sounds.
Alley box and manor, the tick-tock of the city has them all.
He expected her to start arguing with him immediately about tick-tock.
In fact, that tick-tock wanted her to do some specific thing!
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