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Example sentences for: ticking

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He glowers and snorts like the Incredible Hulk--"I am a ticking time bomb!"
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who reportedly was ticking him off for not being tough enough on the Serbs on the Kosovo issue (see Slate 's "The Week/The Spin" for more on the situation in Kosovo).
That's the message of The Potato Eaters , with its little glinting lamp illuminating the darkness and its loaded juxtaposition on the background wall of ticking clock and Crucifixion, time and eternity.
“There will always be a need for new antibiotics because the clock starts ticking on the useful lifetime of any antibiotic once you start to use it.
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.