Example sentences for: tick

How can you use “tick” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sunday's column, for instance, in reporting that Tim Allen had bought Christian Slater's house, was only too glad to tick off the actors' credits but didn't mention another residential fact the two have in common--they've both done time.

  • Also, an essay wonders what makes teen-age killers tick.

  • 3) It "doesn't try hard enough to figure out what made him tick, and tick so loudly" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). (Find out more about the movie here; read Sarah Kerr's review in Slate .)

  • 2 million Americans reported having used an illegal drug during the previous year, up a tick from 11.

  • Office workers function by the tick of the clock, watching the minutes pass, while farmers live by the season, marking time with the twice yearly harvests.


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