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How to use ticked in a sentence

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He was in tub-thumping mode this week as the hours ticked down to his side's Premiership opener against Aston Villa.
Measuring motions in this absolute space also required a universal clock, which ticked off the seconds for all the inhabitants of the cosmos.
Just because you have passed a few exams and ticked a few boxes, it doesn't mean that you are in an ideal position to take your place in society.
The clock on the wall ticked on, its sound echoing through the otherwise silent room.
But as time passed and seconds slowly ticked away like eternity, Liz began to lose hope.
It wasn't just the obvious favouritism towards their own daughter that ticked him off either, that wasn't even the beginning of it.
I was still buzzing by the time I got home and couldn't sleep as my brain ticked over with excitement.
Mrs H first ticked her off for taking a silly route then offered her a hot bath.
Leon Morris spat at a retail assistant who ticked him off for being in a group that was misbehaving, a court heard at another hearing.
Please forgive me and know that I likewise extend forgiveness to all who have offended, insulted, irritated, or otherwise ticked me off.
The adults fancied a pick and mix kind of lunch so the cicchetti ticked our boxes.
The gold case shone in the dim light of the shop, and the hour hand ticked away merrily.
Sipping bottled water before the concert in Huntington in March, he ticked off a long list of luminaries with whom he had worked.
I haven't ticked too many off just yet but many things are planned for very soon.
She ticked these things off like necessary items on a shopping list and as quickly forgot them.
Gardner and teammates watched helplessly as the final six seconds ticked off the clock.
You expect to be ticked off from time to time if you venture your views in public.
After uncountable seconds ticked slowly by, during which my feet became numb, Stan conceded that a lodgepole pine was probably the way to go.
The two files were saved on different dates, he said, because the computer's internal clock was slow and ticked over to midnight in between.
As the months ticked by, the question became more irritating, but he had to learn to live with it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The clock ticked and ticked, and 'twas so still you could hear every stroke of the pendulum.
During my absence Robert occupied my tent, where the barograph and the thermograph ticked on my boxes.
A clock might have ticked twice while they sat or stood as though that were all there was to do.
He has ticked mentally the box that says 'I canbe the fastest guy around the track' by setting pole in Imola.
It can be ticked all through, and all around, with the thoughts of a man.
In the wainscot of the room a deathwatch ticked its doleful omen.
The clock ticked through the minutes of a half-hour and the afternoon outside began to thicken and darken turbidly.
The lower passions and vices were regularly ticked off in the books, warehoused in the cells, carted away as per accompanying invoice, and left little mark upon it.
Boards sat upon them, secretaries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted away.
United dominated and Berrett rattled the bar as shots on target tally ticked over, but there was work for Ben Amos to do when Tootle created space with a purposeful run.
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