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Example sentences for: ticking

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In an editorial Thursday, the Manila Times of the Philippines said that "the imagery of the bomb--the mushroom cloud, the ticking clock--has suddenly re-entered the public consciousness once more as India, in full view of the world, conducted five nuclear tests and then proceeded to declare itself a nuclear weapons state."
If Clinton, as is now increasingly clear, was a time bomb waiting to explode, then Stephanopoulos helped smuggle him into the White House and muffled the ticking.
McCain : The Social Security Trust Fund is a ticking time bomb.
A lost flotilla, the hemisphere tapped in my ear, the ticking of whales the warnings of sand.
The Times of India said that the pauperization of various East Asian nations "is belatedly being recognised as a ticking time bomb which may explode, plunging the region into acute political and social chaos," and it criticized conservative policies for dealing with this.