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Example sentences for: ticking

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

But the clock is ticking.
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.
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.
Still life, then, is caught between the timeless vision and the ticking clock.
A lost flotilla, the hemisphere tapped in my ear, the ticking of whales the warnings of sand.